How native speakers pronounce “spoke”

What I think it comes to is this: Al Gore spoke the other night about ecology and the revolution that was triggered by Rachel Carson.

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I gave interviews at protests, I spoke on television, I wrote a blog for the BBC

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

wouldn't ban girls from school or oppress women. The Afghans I spoke with didn't believe it. And they were right.

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who had a friendship like ours, and I wrote a book about them. And the kinds of friends that I spoke to, they don't just have a weekly phone call.

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

her friend's chest was still rising and falling. Some of the friends that I spoke to had this friendship occupy the space that's conventionally given to a romantic partner.

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

It’s not either/or. As I spoke to these people, I realized that they were at the frontier of friendship,

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

But today, not everybody recognizes that. I spoke to a mother who really tried to get her son to make dating a priority because she wanted him to find emotional wholeness.

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

I'm a labor journalist, and I wrote a book called "The Good Enough Job," in which I spoke to over 100 people about the relationship between their work and their identity.

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

In the reporting in my book, I spoke to all of these hyperambitious workaholics, and they'd say things like, "Diversify my identity. Got it.

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

like a recession or a layoff. I spoke to all of these folks for my book who treated their work like their family and then were unceremoniously let go during the pandemic.

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

Socrates, famously, believed that he had a daemon who spoke wisdom to him from afar. The Romans had the same idea,

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are two car pileups I spoke to a woman whose grief over losing her father was so great she quit

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there are three car pileups a man I spoke with was in his 50s when his marriage failed he moved back home from

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but others Thrive during this time I spoke with a consultant who took a new job moved his family across the country

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In the general conversation out there, a lot of the sort of fear that people spoke of is the arrival of AGI, artificial general intelligence.

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(Laughter) Then I remembered that he was four and barely spoke English. So I reverted to two words he definitely knew:

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It's a little bit scary. And Yoshua Bengio, when he spoke here, said that agentic AI is the thing to pay attention to.

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Because you mentioned in the talk briefly that the last time you spoke, you know, you'd end up being sued and that it turned your life upside down.

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as young boys tend to do. And we went to the library and spoke in hushed tones, and were paging through

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I carried this quiet shame and this loneliness, so heavy that I barely spoke. I mean, my nickname was Mouse.

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

perhaps the most important discovery to come from this remarkable study. And it's also the one that spoke to me personally, because it's about how to use science to do the best for our children.

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

learning and writing about this incredible study of British children, that there were days when I hardly even spoke to my own British children. So at home, we introduced talking time,

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

and I went on to pursue relentless climate activism. I spoke at the United Nations for the first time at 15 years old, and I saw that there was no youth speaking in these spaces.

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in people who are happier have a greater sense of well-being. And it's because of what I spoke about a few minutes ago, this kind of decrease in chronic inflammation and chronic stress.

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feels remorseful for his actions. Tsarnaev spoke words of apology, but when jurors looked at his face,

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and you have an entirely different story. I recently spoke at a university where a student told me that it was such a shame

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she's now sent over 120 girls to school. When we spoke last week, she told me she's become a little infamous at the local bank

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And I say "thank you for being here" because I was silent for 17 years. And the first words that I spoke were in Washington, D.C., on the 20th anniversary of Earth Day.

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basically overtaken by poverty, crime and violence? Then the little voice in me spoke, and it says, "You must rise to the occasion.

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