How native speakers pronounce “spend”

nothing for between 6 and 15 minutes in other words to spend time alone with their thoughts

Running

and said he'd wait with me. Would I have chosen to spend 2 hours in O'Hare with a Hare Krishna? No.

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I want you to spend the next 10 minutes being absurdly self-indulgent, which is advice I would almost never otherwise give people.

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They said that they were looking forward to every weekend that they got to spend together. It felt like a vacation

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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?

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while others can't nod off unless they're sprawled out on their backs. How we spend the night affects our bodies in several ways. Different sleep postures shift the relative positions of our internal organs,

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