How native speakers pronounce “sense”

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Around the home, designate a place for things that are easily lost. Now, this sounds like common sense, and it is, but there's a lot of science to back this up,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

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Around the home, designate a place for things that are easily lost. Now, this sounds like common sense, and it is, but there's a lot of science to back this up,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

And if you're wondering, somebody actually did the experiment where they cut off the olfactory sense of the squirrels, and they could still find their nuts.

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

"you have to raise them yourself." That made sense. Small children coming to storytime,

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

is very concerning. I think it justifies a general sense of wariness or skepticism about the

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

When we compare ourselves to societal norms, we can develop a sense of resentment toward our partner, as well as a sense of shame for how we ourselves are coming up short.

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

we can develop a sense of resentment toward our partner, as well as a sense of shame for how we ourselves are coming up short. Now, before we really get into this,

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

So when I show people these questions in these experiments, I can feel a sense of dread spreading over the room when I put these questions up on the board,

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

I just saw how scared I was. I looked like this kid in "The Sixth Sense." I saw dead people.

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

Jen and I had already adopted two children into our family, and so we had some sense of how this might go. Nevertheless, this choice caught me off guard.

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

the outliers and the exceptions draw our attention and lead us into a much greater sense of perhaps what a tree is. We often talk about losing the forests for the trees,

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

that is fully autonomous, what is referred to, in the geeky sense, level four and level five.

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

I have two young daughters, and like a lot of us, I've been trying to make sense of the future they're growing up into. And what helped me make sense of it actually wasn't looking forward.

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

I've been trying to make sense of the future they're growing up into. And what helped me make sense of it actually wasn't looking forward. It was going back, all the way back.

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

now I'm crying, feeling this delayed sense of grief, realizing I'm acting like my son

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

Predictability is just consistency made visible. It is, in every sense, a compliment. What Harvey found in these justices was not weakness.

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

the reds and the oranges? Will it feel a sense of beauty or a rush of joy? Or will computers, however smart they get,

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

And back in the real world, talk of conscious AI does other things too -- it conjures this sense of technological wonder and magic which might keep share prices aloft and regulators at bay.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

It was about human differences in the sense that you either believe in human values or not. You either believe in the right of someone else to live,

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

And we can face the blank page with creativity, with curiosity, with the excitement of a sense of adventure. Efforts to predict the future go hand-in-hand with efforts to control it.

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

I know how naive this sounds now, but at nine or 10 years old it made sense to me. I lived in a remote mountainous region of Pakistan.

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

Singles invest heavily in marital milestones. This made sense when everyone got married, but for us lifelong singles,

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

have a constitutional right to marry. Here is a sense of what Justice Kennedy wrote: “Marriage responds to the universal fear that a lonely person might call out

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

Friendship. I got the sense that friendship could be this stronger force in our lives because of a friendship that I stumbled into.

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

It’s an anonymous survey with your bosses, peers and direct reports, and the idea is to get a panoramic sense of your strengths and weaknesses. I opted for the colonoscopy version of a 360 review.

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

turned me into a quasi self-help guru. And a few years into this trip, I decided that I wanted to get a sense of whether my inner work was having outer results, you know?

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

So before we do that, I just want you all to kind of get a sense of the typical pattern that we see when people are engaging in these interactions.

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

which means that they don't have to try to use other people as a tool to fulfill their sense of self or to help them escape threatening emotions or feelings.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

which means you may not have had a history of healthy relationships, but you've done the work on yourself to develop a sense of security, right? Remember, this isn't --

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

because they're almost seeing that person as a tool to fulfill their sense of self. Avoidantly attached people,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

and I could help others work through their next inevitable setback and come out the other side with a sense of resilience, creativity, and hopefully success.

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

You're sore, and then you're strong. It makes sense. When things are going well,

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

when I feel low self esteem, when I don't have a sense of self-worth, when I don't feel like I have a right to want, to take,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

you will see setbacks so much more clearly, and you will emerge from them with a sense of all you can achieve. Remember that setback I asked you to think of

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

and in fact desire comes with a certain amount of selfishness in the best sense of the word: the ability to stay connected to one's self in the presence of another.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

on whether they were even able to engage in quality connections. And that does make sense, because people who are burnt out tend to withdraw,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

Creating polls and using your chat channels to learn more about their sense of humor, their personalities, their preferences,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

to do more and do it better. Boundaries give your ambition a sense of rhythm and pace

Let Your Ambition Light You Up — Not Burn You Out | Tarveen Forrester | TED · TED

yet it is equally important. Maya didn't yet have a sense of community in her new home. She wasn't seeing her family,

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

and chit-chatted with a barista, felt happier and a greater sense of belonging than people who just rushed to get their coffee and go.

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

how do we help people who are different from one another experience a sense of belonging and support in the workplace? Now we've all had that moment.

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

instead of investing yourself and feeling like it's meaningful; decreased sense of accomplishment, where you just keep working harder and harder for less and less sense

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

decreased sense of accomplishment, where you just keep working harder and harder for less and less sense that what you are doing is making any difference;

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

went from dozing through class to forging his own path in every sense of the word, after discovering blacksmithing. His school was ready

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

It's equally wise to go for the stressful job so long as you believe that you can handle it, in some sense? KM: Yeah, and one thing we know for certain

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

to the mere mention of those years, and it makes sense. Middle school is a time like no other.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

It’s different than simply being praised or rewarded for achievements but rather rooted in a deep sense of self. And so what my school does is move away from either-or thinking.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

Now the third C represents community, to counter this false sense of individualism and having to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

One year we posed an essential question to our students that asked, "How can we create a community where everyone feels a sense of belonging?" Students took this question. They generated initial thoughts.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

Now what we realized is through this community learning process, students felt a greater sense of satisfaction with studying, taking academic risks and just valuing the overall learning process.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

shaking in the wind. But silence so reliably offers me a sense of release that I realise it's the best investment I will ever make.

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

Why not think about it this way? Because it makes as much sense as anything else I have ever heard in terms of explaining the utter maddening capriciousness

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

only one in five doctors said they had any sense of confidence to address those issues, to improve health where it begins.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

whoever is willing to play ball, let's bring in to create a solution that makes sense, to take those patients who actually have clinical problems

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

is making sure that we're changing the sense of confidence, that "don't ask, don't tell" metric among clinicians.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

there are different types of receptors, so photoreceptors, so receptors that sense light. And classically, we distinguish two types, the rods and the cones.

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

But they are exclusively designed to sense short wavelength proportions in daylight. Sometimes, we also call this blue light.

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

And remarkably, they looked a lot like G-protein coupled receptors, which every neuron uses to sense external signals. So this suggests that biology can achieve amounts of efficiency

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

What do they have in common? They weren't created by humans in the traditional sense. They were generated by AI.

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

we have producers come together to create content. I'm talking about this in the most general sense. Writers, actors, directors, artists,

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

George's words reveal for me a more profound truth. AI can provide a sense of understanding that feels incredibly real and incredibly human.

Love, Trust and Marketing in the Age of AI | Amaryllis Liampoti | TED · TED

could be a stepping stone to creating it sort of made sense. This paper I was involved in

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

I would not go so far to give AI a true human sense of humor. A human sense of humor is not about making a joke or getting it.

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

to give AI a true human sense of humor. A human sense of humor is not about making a joke or getting it. It's rooted in our vulnerability.

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

not for diabetes, but for weight loss. It makes sense when we are so rewarded for thinness and stigmatized for fatness.

How Digital Culture Is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies | Elise Hu | TED · TED

because those facing adversity often suffer from social exclusion a sense of being out of touch

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We're feeding a future where kids will know hunger only as a fleeting sense of anticipation and not a constant state of being.

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

like Cher's character in Moonstruck we like slappers in the metaphoric sense okay mom get over yourself it's time to

friends loved ones for many of us our sense of belonging comes from our families it's our we story

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Transcendent commitment Beyond ourselves for many of us our cause is our sense of giving back it's our the story

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to do something about it. But does that make any sense? I moved from Texas,

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

as a condition to access their own oil and gas import market. In a sense, the EU methane policy can serve as a blueprint

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

and learning to savor our time makes much more sense than rushing beat the clock

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But even in the mid 1800s, it turns out the Victorians had a sense of humor. They manipulated images.

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

Flourishing is a state in which all aspects of life are good. The sense of meaning and purpose, close social connections, happiness,

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

and if you're not fearful, you're not violent. If you're grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not of a sense of scarcity,

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

If you're grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share.

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

Sandy and I happened to go for a walk not long after my dad passed, and I said I felt this sense of freedom and a lack of regret, and I thought it had to be

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

and in talking to others about their losses, is that Gracenotes create the sense of completeness, contentedness and calm.

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

But paying attention to it can tap into that sense of wonder and enrich our lives. Number four is: fake it till you feel it.

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

By blaming themselves, the kids were making their losses make sense. Even though it hurt to blame themselves,

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

It's easy to be honest with someone you're never going to see again, right? That makes sense. The second reason is where it gets more interesting.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

we'd seen the benefits of giving spike when people felt a real sense of connection with those they were helping and could easily envision the difference they were making

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

But it was astonishing. And I felt the sense of real excitement, a little bit queasy,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

And I think we’re not far away from models that are going to be of great public interest in that sense. CA: So Sam, I asked your o1-pro reasoning model,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

People really don't want models to censor them in ways that they don't think make sense. That's a fair safety negotiation.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

I've helped more than thousands of people across the world to help them make sense of their relationships from the most intimate spaces

The 6 Essential Ingredients of Loving Relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh | TED · TED

that they generally are competitors with each other, what's the sense in which you feel that they're acting, you know, sort of as a group?

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

And so I'm going to tell you a little story about myself, to give you a sense of this. For those of you who don't know, I'm a professor at Stanford.