How native speakers pronounce “seven”

Coke bottles for the 5-cent deposits to buy food with and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to

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Because you don't think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? I never thought of it.

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I never thought of it. I mean, he was seven at some point. He was in somebody's English class, wasn't he?

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but the most wondrous period of my life. It’s about seven years ago, and we adopted a teenage boy, and I had two teenagers already at home.

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or constantly changing your bedtime, can take its toll. Regularly getting less than seven hours of sleep each night is linked to all sorts of health issues,

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is that we're not getting enough and that anything less than seven hours a night means that we’re doomed to bad health,

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The first flaw is that it's not completely accurate. Seven to eight hours of sleep, while recommended for adults, is just an average.

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diabetes and depression. But fixating solely on seven to eight hours ignores the fact that there's a range of sleep that people need.

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because she would have woken up from a seven-and-a-half- or eight-hour sleep, and have been able to see the big picture.

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Conversations are not a promotional opportunity. Number seven: Try not to repeat yourself.

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That was fun. But my niece Aria is seven, and interestingly, she has never once said to me,

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Six percent for heart disease, seven percent for type 2 diabetes, which is what my father died of.

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I want you all to count backwards from 996 in increments of seven. You're going to do this out loud,

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When I visited, I saw a seven-year-old named Jalissa who had an emotional outburst in the classroom.

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She recorded all of this and then she and her colleagues sat tight and waited for seven years to see who would still be breathing.

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the first poll was voluntary versus involuntary seven percent were involuntary you get sick you lose your job your

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So could you imagine going to the doctor's appointment and being told by the doctor that your seven-year-old is going to relay the information to you?

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But in a last-ditch effort to save me, my doctors gave me a combination of seven chemotherapies that weren't meant for my disease.

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to develop a new drug from scratch. The good news is that those seven chemotherapies that had saved my life, they weren't made for my disease.

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I was just 23 years old, and my firstborn son, Terrell, had just turned seven. Driven by the belief that our children would not inherit our conflicts,

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Now, in 2003, my oldest son, Terrell, that was seven years old when I negotiated the treaty, graduated from high school

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and it's getting better exponentially fast. It's doubling every seven months. What are AIs going to do with that planning ability in the future?

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"Well, it's better than having a eulogy read over a casket." My dad died seven years ago at the age of 96, and he was surrounded by family and friends and two hospice workers.

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First we got a year, then we got two, then we got five and then we got seven. And then when I was 11,

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I get all kinds of stories. About seven years ago, I started documenting my experiences to try to figure out why.

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is because I have been asked this question again and again and again for the past seven months. And this question is really what I want to talk about today.

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But how much inspiration can you take? If you say, I want to generate art in the style of these seven people, all of whom have consented to that,

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the resend the uh executive order by Biden with the heads of the seven systemically important us AI companies

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And I was terrified because when you get a job like that, you know you’re going to be reviewed in about seven years. And either you’re going to get tenure, more or less a job for life,

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and all the other little things you need to do to get tenure. And seven years later, I made it. (Applause)

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And there were a lot of tears. The seven years of trying to get tenure. And I had expected, I had hoped

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DF: Well, there's a couple of things. One was that I'd been getting seven different chemotherapy drugs with each of my relapses.

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with each of my relapses. Every time I was in the ICU, they'd give me seven chemotherapies, but they weren't made for my disease.

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it and then you'll see if it was bad or good, and then we'll try it maybe seven minutes the next week.

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They're the parents of two young children, seven academic degrees between them, big nerds, really nice people but very sleep-deprived.

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and "people's religions have varied" and so forth and did the same thing with a seven-foot-tall president. And it said that people of all heights have been president,

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And it said that people of all heights have been president, but there haven't actually been any seven-foot presidents. So some of this stuff that it makes up, it's not really getting the idea.

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He burned all his poetry at the age of 24 and then did not write another poem for at least seven years because he couldn't rectify the life of a poet

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I had no idea what I was doing. I was working 14-plus hour days, seven days a week. I was using stimulants to get going.

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I got on a 46-foot boat and I sailed from Malta to Tunisia to Sicily. I traveled 11,000 miles over 13 months to seven different countries without a plan or a phone or a credit card.

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And then, running out of money, I landed as a nanny for two kids, four and seven, who had just lost their mom.

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as composed as a war nurse holding eye contact and saying these seven words: Tell me more.

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and often, I can tell you, after sex. They live about seven good years longer than the average American. Five times as many centenarians as we have in America.

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and tears down the San Bernardino freeway, where she still volunteers for seven different organizations. I've been on 19 hardcore expeditions.

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These people know their sense of purpose, and they activate in their life, that's worth about seven years of extra life expectancy.

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He survived. Seven months later, I visited the orphanage and I held him in my arms.

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Well, I bet I know how you'd solve that problem if you solved it. You went, "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight." You counted them.

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because some languages don't have exact number words. They're languages that don't have a word like "seven" or a word like "eight."

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My team and I have been using generative AI as a collaborator for seven years, although it feels like 70.

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But all 600 living ferrets today are the descendants of just seven ancestors. And with inbreeding that jeopardizes their long-term survival in the wild.

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has led to people being beaten in the streets. Twenty-seven African countries have passed laws against sodomy. And in Nigeria, gay people can legally be stoned to death,

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And it all started one day on a plane, on my way to TED, seven years ago. And in the seat next to me was a high school student, a teenager,

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and pass it on to kids? So here we are, seven years, 500 interviews later, and I'm going to tell you what really leads to success

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I had constructed for the world. I remember talking with her about her seven-year partnership with Porter Wagoner.

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I was also an early writer, and when I began to write, at about the age of seven, stories in pencil with crayon illustrations

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We're pretty safe here. Well, guess what? In England, it's seven per 100,000. It's Japan, it's four per 100,000.

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with myself, Sonny Boy, and the rest of his family, seven of us in this long line, with the smell of rubbish all around us

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put my foot in the Atlantic Ocean -- it was seven years and one day it took me to walk across the United States. And on Earth Day, 1990 --

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but this is not how I started. When I was seven years old, I remember watching television and seeing people throwing rocks,

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I was born in China and grew up in Taiwan. When I was seven, my family had to flee to the island

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