How native speakers pronounce “sometimes”

medicine but I guess the patient needed it sometime life sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

tasks you make more mistakes and take much longer sometimes twice as long than if you had performed each task one at a time

Slow Thinking

I've been praising slowness for nearly 20 years now and yet sometimes even I go too fast or get distracted

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I've had the chance to use more than 30 different kinds of submarines. Sometimes sharing the view with government officials, such as the Minister of the Environment from Ecuador.

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

along with other great ideas to try to protect the ocean’s blue heart. Sometimes I'm asked, "So what's the best place to go diving?" And I say, "Almost anywhere

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

I didn't want to be the only one left standing up, so sometimes I think I married my husband because he was the closest chair to me at 30."

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

without adequate safety testing? It sometimes seems completely overwhelming.

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

can be met with curiosity and even judgment. It also shows us that sometimes, when we decide to do things a little differently,

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

This is me -- you probably can't see, this is a bad picture. You know, sometimes you get rejected by lighting, you know? (Laughter)

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

This is how science moves forward. This is how science learns. Sometimes in the media, and even more rarely, but sometimes even scientists will say

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

Sometimes in the media, and even more rarely, but sometimes even scientists will say that something or other has been scientifically proven.

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

ways to manage sarcoma patients. Sometimes, the outliers and the exceptions

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

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

But when things don't work well, sometimes we want something different. A colleague of mine removed a tumor from a patient's limb.

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

Your cells grow so you can grow. But sometimes a cell forgets that it belongs to a whole. It starts growing without limit.

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

Our civilization is itself a merger. It is the sometimes fragile, invisible agreement that millions of strangers will share institutions,

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

I learned that protecting the whole sometimes meant shrinking parts of ourselves. Growing up in a place where access is limited,

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

And while messages have to be simplified for health communication to the public, sometimes important nuances get lost. So yes, it's true that not getting enough sleep in the long term

Do You Really Need 8 Hours of Sleep Every Night? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter | TED · TED

to make sure that they put values in front of everything else. Because sometimes standing on the right side of history, it's the most difficult decision.

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

that get lodged in your tonsils and they smell really terrible, sometimes you cough them up and it's like -- it's awful. And many, many people have experienced this.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

which obviously is not perfect. It can be messy, it can be painfully slow sometimes. But the opposite of it is destruction,

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

they're looking for their person, sometimes waiting hopelessly. The just-may singles are open to possibilities,

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

friendship is invisible. Sometimes this diminishment of friendship comes from the outside, and sometimes it comes from the inside.

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

Sometimes this diminishment of friendship comes from the outside, and sometimes it comes from the inside. A woman wrote to me about her friend who she considers her person.

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

isn't always super direct. Sometimes it's a little bit patronizing. So you could probably see where I'm going with this.

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

that true listening requires a setting aside of oneself. And sometimes that means setting aside your personal opinion. He said that sensing this acceptance,

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

So the cat group became half cat group, half social group. And I think sometimes we think that you know, a tiny act, something small like saying hello can have colossal consequences for our life.

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

because they don't have that support outside of the relationship. So I think sometimes we see, we think of like, "Oh, are my friends a threat to my spouse?

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

Insecurely attached people, they sometimes perceive other people through the lens of their own wounds, right?

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

In desire, we want a bridge to cross. Or in other words, I sometimes say, fire needs air. Desire needs space.

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

lies that movement toward the other. Because sometimes, as Proust says, mystery is not about traveling to new places,

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

One person even congratulated me for being laid off. Sometimes it is your community who sees how amazing you are

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

to the sexlessness of the couples that I work with, I sometimes would hear people say, "I want more sex," but generally, people want better sex,

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

But going from knowing to doing can be surprisingly complicated. Sometimes after all the introspection and the dopamine dips, and the strategizing, and the exploration, and the phone calls,

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

you're a little exhausted. Sometimes you just need to rest. So take the rest.

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

protection, worry, responsibility for the other -- are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire. Because desire comes with a host of feelings

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

And she was able to lose some weight, even though she sometimes complained that I was acting like the food police. Nonetheless, I was grateful to have my biggest fan

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways community creates a healthy life | TED · TED

Sorry, mom and dad. Sometimes, that nudge is a gentle poke. "Stop fidgeting, Henna."

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

"Stop fidgeting, Henna." Sometimes, that nudge feels like a giant shove. "Who says you're ready for a TEDx?"

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

So the first step ... there are three. Let me warn you because sometimes we need to know that. Alright. The first step is to acknowledge that we all have some privilege.

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

And this is one of the reasons that chronic stress is sometimes associated with cardiovascular disease. It's not really healthy to be in this state all the time.

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

And again, I know this isn't 100 percent guaranteed. Sometimes when I make that four-hour drive up to the retreat house,

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

of the grind of work and sometimes home life. It's a place where we don't have to worry

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

or knows a black man who has it. Sometimes, those conversations in the barbershop would be about what happens when high blood pressure

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

Not only do you trust your barber with your look and with your style, but you also trust him with your secrets and sometimes your life. Denny, like many barbers, is more than just an artist,

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

in her community, about where health, and unfortunately sometimes illness, do begin in places like South L.A.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

knows does not always behave rationally. And, in fact, can sometimes feel downright paranormal. I had this encounter recently

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

and it's important to note that upstreamists sometimes are doctors, but they need not be. They can be nurses, other clinicians,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

relationship to surfing? >> It's mostly love and sometimes hate mostly because I hate that I'm not

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

work with that dance partner and sometimes your dance partner is feeling especially

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

to sense short wavelength proportions in daylight. Sometimes, we also call this blue light. So they're designed to extract important information about the time of day

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

It's not just the things we see. Sometimes we attribute more intelligence than might actually be there. Maybe you've seen the dogs on TikTok.

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

like losing a spouse or being fired sometimes become catalysts for reinvention disruptors are simply deviations from

Lifequakes

well one thing is timing sometimes a disrupter comes along at a moment of particular vulnerability and

Lifequakes

major change or sometimes a disrupter Falls at the end of a long string of disruptors and

Lifequakes

For artists, creators, developers, and sometimes just to enjoy a beautiful, fantastical environment.

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

he said she's always the voice in my head I wasn't always sad you said sometimes there were moments of absolute Joy

Accept

you can simply pull back pivot and reboot but sometimes that kind of fluidity can feel overwhelming enough with all this

Mark

We study them in the laboratory, in clinical trials, and sometimes, we go right to spotlighting them, because the work has already been done to prove that they're effective.

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

where we discovered a repurposed treatment, but sometimes, we actually uncover matches that already exist, they're just not being utilized.

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

it floats it reoccurs it happens all the time and sometimes only once it's sharing your story with others

Share

We're protecting one another, but sometimes the only way we knew how to survive. In the first two years of the peace treaty,

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

is where the gift lie. Sometimes we have to sit long and hard, in the anguish and the pain of the things that we suffered

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

is to find someone that you know or don’t know, sometimes it’s easy to talk to people that you don’t know. And expose the deep secrets in your personal life,

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

they're quite small installations, and sometimes they look a lot like greenhouses or skylights. But Atlas Maps found 443 installations in Pakistan,

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

there can be risks in personal storytelling sometimes we use our life story to beat ourselves up or hold ourselves back it's

Tell

due to artisanal gold mining in Madre de Dios. I think people are not aware that sometimes the gold that you buy maybe is poisoning the rainforest in the Amazon or other tropical areas.

The Hidden Cost of Buying Gold | Claudia Vega | TED · TED

we explain to them that they have to choose safer fish. Sometimes it's very difficult because you don't have the right answer for them.

The Hidden Cost of Buying Gold | Claudia Vega | TED · TED

Do you forget things more often?" And also mercury sometimes can increase the chance of having cardiovascular disease.

The Hidden Cost of Buying Gold | Claudia Vega | TED · TED

we have to care about where the gold is coming from. Sometimes we use things and we don't even know how much impact they have in the world.

The Hidden Cost of Buying Gold | Claudia Vega | TED · TED

daily life sometimes one person tackles the puzzle alone or two or three of us sit around the

Family

fast sex is always bad I like a quickie as much as the next person sometimes a little Speedy Nookie might be just what

Romance

first place you forge a deeper richer Bond of course sometimes the opposite can happen if you've been cruising along in

Romance

AI companies spend vast sums on the first two, sometimes a million dollars per engineer and up to a billion dollars per model.

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

But they are not free. Sometimes people get hurt. Often lots of people.

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

Better thinking is. But sometimes you can have both. I used to think there was no such thing as a free lunch in human thinking.

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

and we can rise to it by learning something which is sometimes painful. Learning patience, for instance.

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

Mostly it's the opportunity to enjoy, but sometimes it's something more difficult. But whatever it is, if we take this opportunity,

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

It was like a music in my mind. Sometimes I said the word "thank you" loudly even to inanimate objects like sun and the moon and the stars,

A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life | JayaShri Maathaa

And as heart-wrenching as it was to admit, she said sometimes she wanted her to die. Sandy and I happened to go for a walk not long after my dad passed,

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

This is unrealistic. At least sometimes, you can't wait for retirement to start a family,

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

I don't love my wife well. I pout at her, she calls me pouty pants sometimes. I didn't do well at work, I felt stressed,

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

So you can download these and actually measure your lives tonight. You know, I still wake up sometimes at 3am, but now I don't really panic anymore.

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

when I talk to somebody on my train on the way to work. Sometimes it goes further. Researchers have found that people often feel more comfortable

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

And guess what? Sometimes they do understand us a little better. OK.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

and you're trying to figure out what the right thing to do is. Sometimes breaking the rules a little bit is where the action is. In case it's not clear, I really want you to do this. OK?

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

You might have that experience I talked about of feeling understood. Sometimes in conversation, it comes up, people ask me, "What does your dad do?" or, "Where does he live?"

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

people ask me, "What does your dad do?" or, "Where does he live?" And sometimes I tell them the whole truth, which is that he died when I was a kid.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

But I can also see myself more clearly, and I can see that what I want is sometimes more than can reasonably be asked for.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

Does the power and the wealth make it impossible to sometimes do the right thing and you just have to cling tightly to that ring?

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

What do you think? I mean, do you feel that ring sometimes? SA: How do you think I'm doing, relative to other CEOs,

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

who comes out and says aggressive things to other people. SA: Sometimes I do that. That's my single vice, you know?

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

They also negotiate often what movies to watch tonight. They compromise sometimes. This holiday at my parents', the other one at yours.

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

that intercultural partners have to face on a daily basis, but sometimes don't even know that they're facing them. Some of these are very, very hidden.

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

or even workplace encounters. Oddly, these domains sometimes overlap. The first challenge I'd like to share with you today

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

but humor often doesn't translate very well. Sometimes a joke is funny in one language, but it falls flat in another. Or it could be quite offensive.

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

Be aware that your humor is rooted in your cultural background, and it sometimes doesn't translate in another language. And be aware that your language skills and your surroundings

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

more hassle for us." You know, sometimes at the top, but not at the bottom.

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

They didn't agree with each other. They were suing each other, they were sometimes murdering each other. But it was they needed a relationship with Putin, with power.

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

But when that fades, when that starts to fade, sometimes slowly, sometimes all at once, a question comes up: "Is this it? Is this all there is?"

How to Live a Meaningful Life | Brian S. Lowery | TED · TED