How native speakers pronounce “somebody”

And you're never asked back, curiously. That's strange to me. But if you are, and you say to somebody, you know, they say, "What do you do?"

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

I mean, he was seven at some point. He was in somebody's English class, wasn't he? (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and she's a multimillionaire. Somebody else might have put her on medication and told her to calm down. (Applause)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

It's the part of the brain that allows squirrels to find their nuts. And if you're wondering, somebody actually did the experiment where they cut off the olfactory sense of the squirrels,

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

but the drone got there in seconds. It was able to find that, unfortunately, there was somebody on the tracks, but because of the drone, they knew exactly where he was.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

we can look for intruders -- looks like we might have caught somebody here -- and generally have a complete digital picture of everything that's happening.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

(Laughter) Heaven forbid you’d sit next to somebody and start a chitchat -- of course, you creep.

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

of course, you creep. Or worse yet, somebody would come and sit down next to you -- surely some kind of weirdo.

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

How much more time would you spend reaching out to lift somebody up if you knew just how much good in that moment you could actually do?

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

And yet, all too often, our choice to reach out and connect with somebody is thwarted by overly pessimistic fears about how other people might respond.

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

That gap, as somebody who loves entrepreneurial capitalism and defends entrepreneurial capitalism,

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

A bidirectional model that can listen and hear at the same time. Somebody mentions a statistic, a subagent can spin off and check it for you.

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

Once again, you conjure the image and send the phrases. After that, it's on to a mentor, somebody who's helped you in your life. Then a neutral person, somebody you might overlook.

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

After that, it's on to a mentor, somebody who's helped you in your life. Then a neutral person, somebody you might overlook. Then a difficult person, probably not hard to find.

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

or how much you've suffered. Somebody asked Stephen Hawking once what his IQ was, and he said, "I have no idea. People who brag about their IQs are losers."

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

In desire, we want an Other, somebody on the other side that we can go visit, that we can go spend some time with,

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

(Laughter) I have yet to see somebody who is so turned on by somebody who needs them.

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

I have yet to see somebody who is so turned on by somebody who needs them. Wanting them is one thing.

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

when I'm surprised, when we laugh together, as somebody said to me in the office today, when he's in his tux, so I said, you know,

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

off in their playfulness, all the while knowing that there's somebody when they come back. But if on this side there is somebody who says,

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

all the while knowing that there's somebody when they come back. But if on this side there is somebody who says, "I'm worried. I'm anxious. I'm depressed.

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

So just like you would ponder a big purchase, the next time somebody requests your time or a commitment from you, I want you to ask yourself,

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

I want someone to identify their privilege. I want somebody to actually hear my circumstances and experience, and empathize with me.

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

Unfortunately, most of us know how to make silence a weapon or a shield. To draw somebody out or to draw her in. Where were you last night?

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

We can't even hear what that friend is saying. Somebody's cell phone is ringing. "Sorry, I've got to take this."

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

But when you fall in love or when somebody you love dies or when you step out into that sunrise,

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

and well into the future. So simply making eye contact with somebody, shaking hands, giving somebody a high-five

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

So simply making eye contact with somebody, shaking hands, giving somebody a high-five is enough to release oxytocin,

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

social intelligence -- that means anticipating what somebody else is thinking and feeling and planning --

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

is quite amazing because it tells us a simple thing. If somebody hears your voice, they think you're smarter.

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

An extraordinary statement to make about your life's work. But we don't even blink when we hear somebody say this, because we've heard that kind of stuff for so long

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And I got to tell you, I think that was a huge error. You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. It just completely warps and distorts egos,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

when I can take care of you. Otherwise, go bother somebody else today. Go bother Leonard Cohen."

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

to be passed along when you're finished, with somebody else. And, you know, if we think about it this way, it starts to change everything.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

and then send it back out through the door. To somebody who speaks Chinese, standing outside this room,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

Let's say we have two Chinese rooms. In one Chinese room is somebody who actually speaks Chinese, and in the other room is our impostor.

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

and we need to be able to compare it to the scratch pad of somebody who actually understands language. But like scratch pads in brains,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

inherent meaning somebody has to give it meaning in the case of the story of your life

Meaning

Bob has really been the leader that's helped Material Return get started. He's somebody that grew up in Burke County, started to work when he was 16 in a sawmill.

A Bold Idea to Rebuild the Working Class | Molly Hemstreet | TED · TED

If I may be so bold, your first move is to contact somebody like me and my team. I am by training an applied mathematician and computer scientist.

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

The first is, is it deceptive? Could somebody believe this is actually real? Next, is there artistic intent behind it?

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

new styles that maybe we can't even imagine today. Much like it would have been hard for somebody like John Philip Sousa to have imagined this final monstrosity I'm going to play for you.

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

And the woman said she couldn't even remember the last time somebody had asked her her name. Chloe has since made and delivered 5,000 of those bags.

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

So he's wearing, like, a long overcoat and sort of an old-man hat, and he looked like somebody from a movie. And he says to me,

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

or how I feel like part of a community when I talk to somebody on my train on the way to work. Sometimes it goes further.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

So here's how it's going to go. Find somebody who is making eye contact. That's a good signal.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

The first thing is a simple smile. If you're passing somebody on the street or in the hallway here, smile. See what happens.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

like a piece of public art or somebody preaching in the street or somebody wearing funny clothes.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

or somebody preaching in the street or somebody wearing funny clothes. Give it a try.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

If you invite me back next year, you will probably yell at me for somebody who has misused these open-source systems, and say, "Why did you do that?"

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

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

needed it at home for my family." Somebody's watching this and they're like, "Yay, Jasmine.

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

what is the biggest mistake that the disasters of relationships make? The answer is that they fight to win, which means somebody has to lose. What do the masters do instead?

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

And that was what I was trying to communicate in my talk, really, as somebody who has experienced powerlessness. And I think, as I said, it was only coming to TED

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

has some form of property law, right? You can't walk into somebody's house and just steal the silver. Like, that's fundamentally the basis of law and order

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

But I hear it more from other people than from him. And every time somebody is like, "Oh my gosh, your dad is so proud of you."

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

So it would seem that not finding the one, or more specifically, having somebody else find them for you is the secret to marital bliss.

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

both your personal growth and their own. Now of course, to effectively nurture somebody’s personal growth, you have to be emphatically interested in where they are

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

were micromanaged all the time and somebody was saying Whitney why don't you try it this way Whitney that's good

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

of control and what external is when somebody else is deciding how you spend your day and whether you're doing it

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

other's feet. And of course, somebody's foot got hurt and they like hid the fact

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

know, I'll look stupid. Maybe somebody puts my, you know, a real on Instagram.

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

You're distracted because you're talking to your friend and your kid has somebody to do something with.

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

And and the another thing that somebody once recommended to me, there's two cool

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

where's the mom and we don't think somebody once wrote and said, "Well, so if your child is on a skateboard and

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

nice to a kid. You hope that somebody's nice to your kid or to you when you're

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

park is a predator, any kid at the park alone is, you know, um somebody who's neglected by a terrible parent.

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

And he fell in love with the show, and so somebody told William Shatner that, like, there are these young guys who just love your show.

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

of having amazing conversation with Mr. Shatner, somebody came up to us and said, "Mr. Shatner, we have to take you to the airport now."

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

or impresses you or excites you. Somebody once told me it's like walking through life like this.

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

as we prepare to regulate the future together. So next time that somebody tries to talk to you about the robot apocalypse, I want you to turn to them and say,

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED

Information, for example, somebody did die in a car crash in a Tesla in 2018 and it was in the news.

The Urgent Risks of Runaway AI — and What to Do about Them | Gary Marcus | TED · TED

You, all of you, you know your advice monster. Somebody starts telling you about something, you don't really know the situation,

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

If you are on the receiving end of advice, if you're on the receiving end of somebody's advice monster, you're constantly getting the message that you can't figure this out yourself.

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

You keep feeding it, and it is insatiable. Somebody starts talking and your advice monster looms up out of the dark

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

child gets sick, parent dies, you always have somebody who has your back. This particular Moai, these five ladies

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

the pharma companies show that their drugs were not harmful to consumers, which seems kind of obvious, but somebody had to figure that out. And so what we needed at that point was not just kind of new miracle drugs.

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

and most of climate science does elicit a lot of fear. But one time I was on a strike, and somebody on the sidelines asked me, "Are you marching for something or against something?

Your Inner Fire Is Your Greatest Strength | Xiye Bastida | TED · TED

Let me tell you something: you know who you are when you call your friends and say, "I think I need to see somebody. Do you have any recommendations?"

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

But what happens if I go home at the end of my upsetting day and I have somebody to talk to? Either I can call someone on the phone or it's somebody I live with.

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

and I have somebody to talk to? Either I can call someone on the phone or it's somebody I live with. I can literally feel my body calm down.

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

with someone you really want to be sure you see regularly. Or meeting somebody at the gym. Or having lunch with a coworker.

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

"Go out and tell someone." There's always somebody who wants to confiscate our humanity. And there are always stories that restore it.

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

maybe you had an argument or fight with your friend or worse -- you lost somebody you loved. You are heading to this specific space, maybe close to home,

Love, sorrow and the emotions that power climate action | Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug

I make them identify their biggest weakness. Is it that they're missing somebody on their team or that it's very competitive

The Secret to Successfully Pitching an Idea | The Way We Work, a TED series

So, we looked at either a friend, a third party, somebody who's not involved in the conflict, or

Why Venting Doesn’t Help You Deal with Anger | Jennifer Parlamis | TED · TED

doesn't happen in a vacuum, right? There's usually somebody responding to us.

Why Venting Doesn’t Help You Deal with Anger | Jennifer Parlamis | TED · TED

here was the quintessential story move we would do. We'd bring on somebody -- (Audio) Steven Strogatz: It's one of the most hypnotic

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, "Where's your home?" I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

the average resident today is what used to be called a foreigner, somebody born in a very different country. And I've always felt that the beauty of being surrounded by the foreign

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

instead of censure when we see somebody enjoying a really unfamiliar food. Love could be taking the time to inquire,

What foods did your ancestors love? Aparna Pallavi