How native speakers pronounce “top”

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You'd think it would be otherwise, but it isn't. At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities. At the bottom are the arts. Everywhere on earth.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

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You'd think it would be otherwise, but it isn't. At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities. At the bottom are the arts. Everywhere on earth.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Isn't it? They're the people who come out the top. And I used to be one, so there.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

So the hierarchy is rooted on two ideas. Number one, that the most useful subjects for work are at the top. So you were probably steered benignly away from things at school

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

even just watching Tom Cruise hit mach 10 in Top Gun is enough to get our blood pumping but when you live in fast forward you

Running

She was a 26-year-old woman named Alex. Now Alex walked into her first session wearing jeans and a big slouchy top, and she dropped onto the couch in my office

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

Five years later, with climate a top priority, TED at Sea 2 sailed to the South Pacific.

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

Champions were enlisted to help with the protection of the top of the world, the high seas in the Arctic,

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

And there are some places where the ocean is still like this. They have top priority for protection. They can't put them back once they're gone.

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

Their top research institute, the Karolinska Institute, issued a report backing the

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

you don’t trap it in a small container -- like if the lid was screwed on top here. So then for step two,

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

So then for step two, I'm going to go ahead and screw the lid on top. And when I do, if everything goes according to plan,

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

Oh, you know what? What the heck, might as well throw these on top. (Laughter)

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

But inside, instead of headphones, you have this contraption. And at the top there is a cup that spins a pound of the world’s finest glitter. You have four phones that will record,

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

just an email from Liz about the power of connection. And on the top of that, in my own handwriting, scrawled my parents' names,

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

Here is a refresher. Here are the top five in the world. Here are the top five by true net worth.

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

Here are the top five in the world. Here are the top five by true net worth. (Applause)

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

in this new revolution, this new feminist issue. We are literally going to sleep our way to the top -- literally -- (Laughter)

How to succeed? Get more sleep | Arianna Huffington

and that anxiety is regulated by being over-the-top nice to these folks. We also find that these individuals tend to be more synchronized to

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

So you could probably see where I'm going with this. Having over-the-top positive nice feedback can harm your performance, it can make it very difficult for you to climb up,

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

that a lot of our cultures place on love, right? With familial love at the top, with romantic love at the top, and with platonic love, friendship love, really at the bottom.

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

she chimes in and says, "Wait, I'm going to hop off for a moment. I need to go change my top. I'll be back." A few minutes pass by.

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

But between 2014 and 2020, when you look at the top sports exercise science journals, only six percent of the publications,

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

There is a word I've been avoiding in this conversation. So I mentioned at the top of this, you know, dialogue that I work with lots of well-recognized brands.

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

For decades, we've been trapped between two extremes: top-down reforms that can ignore local realities or bottom-up efforts that often depend on heroic and exhausted educators.

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

whether you don't smoke, or if you did, whether you quit, and getting towards the top predictors are two features of your social life.

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

that we could make in the technology. For example, the camera on your laptop is at the top of the screen, so for example, when you're looking into the screen,

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

Like, they come up to me now, all worried, and they say, "Aren't you afraid you're never going to be able to top that? Aren't you afraid you're going to keep writing for your whole life

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

be able to tackle these waves and be able to grab a can off the top shelf when I'm 70 years old.

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

where we could use AI to read the mind of a mouse. So on the top row, you're seeing images that we actually showed to the mouse, and in the bottom row,

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

or terrified by what AI is going to do to us, whether it can be funny, is probably not top of mind for you. It is for me.

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

Usually, the finalist almost certainly almost all the time, really, the finalists come from the top 200 captions. Well, this is popular, not only with the New Yorker,

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

to strengthen his community violence intervention strategy. Now, Newark had been on the top ten most violent city lists for almost 50 consecutive years.

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

Newark now has nine consecutive years of decline, and we're no longer on the top ten most violent city lists. (Applause)

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

And we've never charged any of our recipients to date. Our produce and our quality is top notch. We've never taken a single piece of donated produce.

Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED

But at the end, they had the symptoms and people died. WHO says that mercury is one of the top ten chemicals that are a major concern for public health.

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

Prioritizing bureaucracy over breakthroughs. Silicon Valley, which was home to many of our top engineers and scientists, had turned its back on defense

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

as we know it today. My colleagues and I earned top prizes in our field, people call me a godfather of AI.

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

cultural cachet it's proof that you belong at the top table in the global economy films Like the Wolf of Wall Street

Work

think of nature maybe your spot is the top of a mountain or a wooded Valley

Slow Spaces

is one where the power pyramid is turned upside down and those who were on the bottom are now on the top and are doing exactly the same thing that the ones before.

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

there are countless millions more, and the algorithms just don't put them at the top of our feeds. But they're there.

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

New Year to you so you have just published your annual list of top risks of 2025 a hotly anticipated report that