How native speakers pronounce “stories”

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graduation today I want to tell you three stories from my life that's it no big deal just three

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

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graduation today I want to tell you three stories from my life that's it no big deal just three

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

big deal just three stories the first story is about connecting the dots

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

So that's cool, but why does it actually matter? Well I'm going to share with you a couple of stories. The Oklahoma City Police Department

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

technically portable at 14 lb because I wrote stories. I also had a shoulder bag

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

But I didn't handle it. With the funny stories that Alex would bring to session, it was easy for me just to nod my head

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

These are people. They are people who are gathering data, sharing stories, enlisting kids to care.

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

I wish I could tell you about all of them because the stories are really cause for hope. But let me just share a few.

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

shivering, but I want to do it again." So these are the stories, these kinds of stories.

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

So these are the stories, these kinds of stories. This is what most moves me and

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

it was moments with teachers. They’d tell stories of the teacher from their childhood with the soft voice who would kneel down next to them

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

And we've heard, and we're hearing nowadays, so many stories about suffering, about pain, about things going wrong,

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

But at the same time, it is important that we share success stories, and Kosovo is one such success story.

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

But I think it's totally true of adults, too. You know, I think we all love hearing about gross stories, because it's a socially acceptable way to explore the gross side of ourselves.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

Backs were slapped, stories were shared, glasses clinked. But there was a hitch.

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

and “Champions of the Golden Valley” -- stories of Afghan men and women who are resisting the Taliban's oppression.

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

because there was a hole she wanted to fill in her life. Then she read stories of people like Joe and John in an article I'd written.

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

And we stop listening. Stories and ideas are going to come to you. You need to let them come and let them go.

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

In my work, I hear many others. Stories like Jay, a freshman in college

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

and wishes he could see his kids and grandkids more often. These stories show that social health is relevant to each of us at every life stage.

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

of the women in my own network, and their struggles with weight. Although their stories shed light on the lived experiences of navigating long-term health behavior change,

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

That learning about the experiences part, it's not just so that we can be curious. We love stories, alright? That's great. Keep loving the stories. But also getting to know about folks' experience

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

or would assume were not available to us. So learning about the experiences of others is about hearing the stories. Yes, but it's also about having empathy and connection,

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

It's innate. It's in my body. Think about if we considered it that way. Think about if we considered getting to know folks' stories and having empathy for them

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

"Wait, what do you mean? I don't understand." So my client proceeds to explain about the stories about Black folks' homes being appraised for less

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

He was a gregarious man. He loved to recount stories such as how he lived like a bird

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

(Applause) Now, these centenarians' stories along with the science that underpins them prompted me to ask myself some questions too,

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

by linking them to the resources you need. It's clear to me that there are so many stories of upstreamists who are doing remarkable things.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

What is most compelling is that every day, every week, I hear stories just like Veronica's. There are stories out there of Veronica

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

every week, I hear stories just like Veronica's. There are stories out there of Veronica and many more like her,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

whether you're rich or poor or middle class. These stories are compelling because not only do they tell us that we're this close

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

In the comment sections of my videos, hundreds of stories came rolling in. Stories like Amanda,

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

hundreds of stories came rolling in. Stories like Amanda, who, after losing her baby in the second trimester,

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

because she forgot how to wash dishes. Stories like Lula, whose chronic health problems and depression

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

we can take what are like little snapshots of the brain while it’s reading. So have people read words or stories and then take pictures of their brain. And those brain images are like fuzzy,

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

What about for more complicated things, not just words, but sentences, even stories? Again, this scratch pad prediction task works.

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

States collecting hundreds of life stories from people of all backgrounds people who lost homes lost limbs changed

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transcripts with a team of 12 I've spent years coding these stories for more than a hundred variables looking for patterns

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because mental health communities on TikTok needed a way to share their stories and spread resources. On the other hand,

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

the stage, the world for the content to play in, the background stories of the characters and their situation. The content is then co-created

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

or interacting with it. The best storytellers of a generation will always tell the best stories with the tools they have.

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

collecting and analyzing hundreds of life stories is that vangana is absolutely correct that we all go

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intense, and long-lasting. And I bet many of you might have heard already stories about humans really bonding with AI,

Love, Trust and Marketing in the Age of AI | Amaryllis Liampoti | TED · TED

about humans really bonding with AI, and maybe some stories of AI really bonding with humans. Like, this earlier version of a now-famous AI chatbot

Love, Trust and Marketing in the Age of AI | Amaryllis Liampoti | TED · TED

Little Red Riding Hood Sleeping Beauty all these stories have one thing in common the central figure leaves a world that

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Melt Away personal stories we thought we'd be telling for a lifetime come to an abrupt end

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I felt stuck now I'm beginning to feel unstuck stories are made of language and words use words that help you confirm your progress

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bound to Earth the same applies to our own stories the more we're able to conjure up a

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narrative psychologists have found that stories are more effective when they have Redemptive endings

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one day I caught myself speed reading bedtime stories to my son and I knew right then that I'd lost the

How to slow down with Carl Honoré

to-do lists moments like reading bedtime stories to your child

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bedtime stories are meant to be read at a gentle pace

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myself ogling a collection of one minute bedtime stories my first thought was what a great idea I

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I never bought that book of one minute stories thankfully but the fact that I even considered

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But the fact that AI competes with its training data is inescapable. A large language model trained on short stories can create competing short stories.

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

A large language model trained on short stories can create competing short stories. An AI image model trained on stock images can create competing stock images.

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

Kelly's income fell by 33 percent almost overnight. Illustrators around the world report similar stories, being outcompeted by AI models

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

if you look at only what they term lower-value tasks. So the initial data we have, plus the individual stories we hear, all align with the logical assumption:

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

A woman going through a difficult divorce. These stories are not unique. And it's not just what our users tell us.

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

with a network of hundreds of volunteers keeping it stocked. What these stories have in common, some of them are much more elaborate

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

I offer help, I listen. I get all kinds of stories. About seven years ago, I started documenting my experiences

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

They created toolkits so that young people from coast to coast could elevate their stories, organize, speak out at school board meetings. They fostered spaces for young folks to be able to collaborate,

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

That's me. Now that doesn't happen. People want stories. Strategies come and go.

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

Strategies come and go. But stories are forever, and young people are storytellers. They are true tellers.

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

Around that time, devastating stories about the Syrian refugee crisis were everywhere.

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

For the volunteers, it provides an opportunity to engage with people, to sit down and hear their stories. After this experience, one volunteer changed his commute

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

I was very nervous. I had been working on a book about love stories for the past few years,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

to go out onto the internet to do stuff. I mean, going out onto the internet was always, in the sci-fi stories, the moment where, you know,

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

"Do you think she's the one?" We all carry stories about how love should be, feel and look like. I see this through the lens of my work as a relational psychotherapist,

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

So let me take you on a journey today through the science behind all of these "love handles" stories out there. I'm going to let you in on three specific challenges

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

So if you want more meaning in life, what is there to do? One, look for opportunities to participate in others' stories. And it's funny I'm saying this

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

And so right now here, I'm deeply grateful that you all have let me participate in your stories. And that's deeply meaningful for me.

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

the only thing will be left of you is the role you played in other people's stories, what you leave with other people,

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

And there's the worry around teen suicide and just support. And you hear these horrible stories and I agree with you. It's like, how do we focus on the successes, right?

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

people in the audience started telling stories like this kid, this this one guy, I think it was a principal, got

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

to work and I can't be the only one who's hearing the stories about young people at work being very um I'd say

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

everything that I come with, sees all the stories that come with you. It also means that the ancestors come with me and they, too, see you.