How native speakers pronounce “single”

Our animals would be able to reach millions and millions of people -- without having to meet a single one of them in person. And then, of course,

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

I would fundraise all of the capital to do all of these things and build this entire facility in one single live stream, which is the craziest idea that I've ever had.

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

typography if I had never never dropped in on that single course in college the Mac would have never had multiple type

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

escaped it and that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life it's life's

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

Every piece of information coming out of your computer or phone is a single thread. At any given moment, you are holding

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

So, I specialize in twentysomethings because I believe that every single one of those 50 million twentysomethings deserves to know what psychologists,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

It's what I now have the privilege of saying to twentysomethings like Emma every single day: Thirty is not the new 20, so claim your adulthood,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

I'm very confident that you're going to walk away with what I think is the single best hack for longevity, purpose and living the type of lives that we want to live.

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

that you can start today and that are available to every single person in this room. You control today.

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

And when that thief was about to lift the lid on the glitter bomb, not a single one of you was looking down or was on your phones. I had your undivided attention.

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

that made you feel all those feels, that’s easy -- and you remember every single lyric, you know, 30 years later. And to be fair, I didn’t come up with this style of teaching --

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

like "I have bad news" or "There's nothing more we can do." Sometimes these conversations turn on a single word: "terminal."

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

And even though this is going to cost us $60 million to make, my official declaration tonight is every single lesson plan, every teacher training,

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

our fleet of vehicles is about 3,000 cars ... The single Waymo driver drives over four million miles per week.

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

You see, two billion years ago, life on Earth was mostly single-celled until bacteria figured out a new trick, photosynthesis,

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

I’m irritable, and I probably shouldn’t be driving a car. But this is how many American teenagers feel every single school day. Many of the, shall we say,

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

and we also made more sophisticated measures of their sleep, over a single night, while they slept in a sleep laboratory. We found that when people took the cannabinoid medication,

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

they actually didn't sleep much better when they were in the laboratory. This may be because it was just a single night, or it may be because they had to sleep with equipment like this.

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

I started working with Bob, and he had me, 20 minutes a day, focus on a single word. He didn't send an app.

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

I was so excited to read about the science of ASMR. In 2013, there wasn’t a single peer-reviewed research study. What I did find were plenty of forums:

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

electromagnetic fields sweep through the cortex like weather systems. Even a single neuron is such a beautiful biological machine. A far cry from the simplified, cartoon-like neurons

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

(Laughter) A single sea hare will inseminate the partner in front of it and receive sperm from the one behind,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

I'm not suggesting that we do away with prediction. I'm going to continue to use my weather app every single day. But we need a public debate

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

(Laughter) And then it walked me through every single step: how it got a message from me

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

I pulled the plug, I read every single message just to see if the agent leaked my private life.

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

and his 60-year-old dad, Gerhard, a beer sommelier who never wrote a single line of code. They connected OpenClaw via Bluetooth,

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

strongly don't recommend. Number two, I think I single-handedly increased Mac mini sales by multiple percent.

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

My not so subtle request: stop telling single people to get married. (Laughter)

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

the solo movement, where being single isn't just tolerated, it's celebrated.

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

that show that married people report higher life satisfaction than single people. Their conclusion?

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

Even if it took longer than I wished. But then in a single day, my belief in progress shattered.

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

the hopeless romantics. But of single adults in the United States, half have other priorities. They're not looking for love or lust, whether for now or forever.

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

they're more likely to care for elderly parents and disabled friends, more so than their non-single counterparts. So what should we tell single people rather than "get married?"

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

more so than their non-single counterparts. So what should we tell single people rather than "get married?" Let's start by expanding the concept of significant other.

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

(Applause) And lastly, let's elevate single living to be on par with married living. Not better, not worse,

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

which, to be honest, weren't that good to begin with. Someday, single living and married living will stand side by side, equal.

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

Validating. But what do these words say to you if you're single? Anybody single here?

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

But what do these words say to you if you're single? Anybody single here? I mean, there should be quite a few of you, because in the US,

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

and then some clap emojis from the people on Zoom. Not a single person asked a tough question," she said. And I had this moment where I realized

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

"I came to realize that conversational competence might be the single most overlooked skill we fail to teach. Kids spend hours each day engaging with ideas and each other through screens,

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

hundreds of millions of people around the world go weeks at a time without talking to a single friend or family member. Globally, one in four people feel lonely.

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

It didn't matter whether we were lightweights or we were open weights, whether we were in a single or an eight. We did do lactate testing,

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

or misgender them. It's all of those things that you encounter every single day. And I think when we think of it as just the big things,

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

That's because almost 40 percent of black men have it. That means that almost every single black man either has high blood pressure

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

If we were to extrapolate that three point drop to every single black man with high blood pressure in America, we would prevent 800 heart attacks, 500 strokes and 900 deaths

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

what I really like is this feeling of physical exhaustion, sort of this satisfaction you can feel in every single muscle. And in the evening, when it's time to go to bed,

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

for our organism, for health and, eventually, for sleep. Now throughout your body, in each and every single cell, there is a tiny molecular clock ticking inside it.

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

Well, it's a bit difficult to say, because it of course was a single-case study. But from patients suffering from insomnia,

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

to the 25 percent suffering from sleep problems, to start your own single-case study. Thank you.

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

Now, can we take this to another level? What if instead of creating a video clip shot from a single viewpoint we could create an entire world where you can explore every angle

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

They have been generated. Our models can do that from a single image. For artists, creators, developers,

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

This has also never been possible before. Imagine an actor reaching out to every single viewer and having a meaningful conversation with them,

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

For the first experiment, we fine-tuned our model, our FLAN-T5, on each single dataset separately. For the second experiment,

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

And this is apparently because there is no one single universal rule of deception that we can easily apply in every context,

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

for real-life applications in lie detection, more replication is needed because a single study is never enough so that from tomorrow we can all have these AI systems on our smartphones,

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

to go back into that old room to be a parent simply put there is no single way to go through a life transition

Superpower

and off-label prescribing is actually very common. In fact, one in four prescriptions written every single day in the US is off-label. So I began to study my own blood in the lab

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

Because see, us humans, we've developed 4,000 drugs for about 4,000 diseases, but there are over 14,000 diseases that don't have a single approved therapy. That means that one in 10 of us and our kids

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

and others dropped out. But I know every single one of them saw their potential being wasted. Hunger was a thief of opportunity,

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

for coastal communities to own and operate. The productivity of one single micronursery is expected to exceed that of all global coral gardening efforts combined today.

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

It’s been 10 years since the Paris Agreement. And every single nation in the world, 195 nations, agreed to try to get to net zero by mid-century.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

Is it realistic to ignore the fact that right now, Greenland is losing 30 million tons of ice every single hour? In Antarctica, decade by decade, the ice melting has accelerated.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

We have the ability to do so. But the single biggest reason we have not been able to move faster is the ferocious opposition to virtually every policy proposal

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

for more fossil fuels. The single US state of Florida has more solar panels than the entire continent of Africa.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

is 400 times larger than the potential energy from fossil fuels. Every single country in Africa could have 100 percent energy access

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

Our produce and our quality is top notch. We've never taken a single piece of donated produce. We purchase everything.

Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED

where I can honestly say I've never stopped learning. Every single day. I learn, I apply, I try,

Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED

to figure out how long Factory workers should take for every single task down to the nearest second

Timekeeping

that are feeling a mix of excitement and anxiety, what is that single piece of wisdom or advice you'd like to offer

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

neutralizing air bases and command centers before Taiwan can fire a single shot. The People's Liberation Army Navy moves in with overwhelming force,

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

and the world’s largest missile arsenal, with production capacity growing every single day. We'll never meet China's numerical advantage through traditional means,

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

halt China's amphibious assault before a single Chinese boot reaches Taiwan's shores. By deploying autonomous systems at scale,

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

If you image parallel lines in the physical world, they will converge to a single point, what's called the vanishing point. A good intuition for that, the railroad tracks.

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

but you can see that they narrow as they recede away from me and intersect at a single vanishing point. This is a phenomenon that artists have known for centuries.

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

looked at 14,000 websites commonly used in AI training sets, and they found that, over the course of a single year, looking at only the domains of the highest value for AI training,

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

In 2015, we moved to San Francisco and rented an apartment together. Both start-up founders, both single, trying to figure out our lives, our companies,

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

and from 2011 to 2018 there was not a single traffic death the truth is you can slow down anytime

Slow Spaces

encourages us to spend more time looking at a single work forget the average 30 seconds we're

Leisure

2640 more than six centuries from now it's a single piece by John Cage and it's called surprise surprise as slow as possible

Leisure

It is a real specialty of mine. I can hear 100 compliments and a single insult, and what do I remember?

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

And they remind us that we have this tool accessible to every single one of us every day, which is the power to change someone else's day,

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

So I'm going to just go on a big rant where I tell you why every single one of you needs to be making art. OK?

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

It doesn't have to be an individual choice. A single person could let that agent out there, and the agent could decide, "Well, in order to execute on that function,

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

It's a bargain at the price. I said, what is the single most penetrating question I could ask you? It thought about it for two minutes.

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

SA: Sometimes I do that. That's my single vice, you know? (Laughter)

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

to address all four of those he does not have a single person very strong running point on the relationship like he did

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

And how we eat gives us a shot every single day to try to do a better job. And it doesn't have to be some big

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

This is the brand where every single time somebody comes through the door, they want to take pictures.

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

Now here's an example of harsh versus softened startup. Julie: Alright, so let's say you've been cooking dinner every single night for the last year.

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

You know, the underlying basis of what Google did where it digitized, it stole you know, every single written book in the world, didn't it? That was one of its first acts.

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

of British libel law, a single judge decides on the meaning of your words. And they take into context the entire talk,

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

because I just think those are two ingredients that you need in every single team and every single problem that you're trying to solve.

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

that you need in every single team and every single problem that you're trying to solve. Because if it was easy to solve, then someone else would have done it

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

more than any other time in history. Single-parent families are more common after love marriages. Birthrates are of particular importance to governments

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

because it has made your job as a parent watching every single second. You know,

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

You know if she just as a single as a parent and not somebody who can influence what's happening in her

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

(Laughter) At the end of every single episode, William Shatner's character sits with his protege,

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

repeat in a mantra before every single poetry performance in fact i was like doing it in the corner over

Amanda Gorman: Using your voice is a political choice | TED · TED

in a foreign language. And that when you're off by a single letter, one of billions, this can mean the difference between a healthy person

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

(Laughter) It means that our CRISPRs cut a single strand of DNA into two, in the exact right spot, just like natural CRISPRs in the lab.

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED