How native speakers pronounce “until”

Whenever I have a truly bad day, frustrating as it may be, it's a matter of time until my next smile. Good things are coming to me.

Joy Will Find You — If You Let It | David Larbi | TED · TED

So why is this? I lived in Stratford-on-Avon until about five years ago. In fact, we moved from Stratford to Los Angeles.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

(Laughter) Waiting until it ends, so they can go home and write a paper about it. (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

(Laughter) And it wasn't until I got to the airport check-in counter, that I realized I didn't have my passport.

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

So I started thinking about that, but my thoughts didn't crystallize until about a month later. I was having dinner with my colleague, Danny Kahneman, the Nobel Prize winner,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

So, I didn't know that my flight was 2 hours delayed until I reached the gate. The Hare Krishna laid my burdens down

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

say just no. Like until it's proven safe, no.

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

Without these, a peace agreement becomes a lid on a boiling pot. It looks calm until the pressure finds the weakest point -- then it erupts.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

And I introduced a sequence that almost looks too simple until you watch it work. Self-interest, transaction, recognition and then humanity.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

and then the return of humanity. Wherever conflict rules, STIR that room until humanity rises. Thank you.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

And we mourned that loss for many months, until one morning Jen and I were talking and she asked whether we could,

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

(Laughter) This is going to be real boring until it's not. If you don't like loud noises, cover your ears.

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

and I will be. But until that time -- and buckle up,

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

left side, right side, stomach, or back. Until the age of one, it is recommended that babies sleep on their backs to lower their risk

What’s the best position to sleep in? - Rachel Marie E. Salas

life on Earth was mostly single-celled until bacteria figured out a new trick, photosynthesis, which makes oxygen.

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

This is driven in part by a shift in the release of the hormone melatonin. Teenagers’ bodies wait to start releasing melatonin until around 11 p.m., which is two hours later than what we see in adults or younger children.

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

Think about what we even do when we use a computer today. You move a picture of an arrow around until it touches a picture of a folder. Inside, there are pictures of files.

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

collect one more accolade, or just keep moving long enough until you finally feel safe. When in reality,

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

is that the cannabis plant, or cannabis, was illegal in most countries around the world until the late 1990s, so it's only been in the past 20 or so years --

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

and we didn't either, until we'd analyzed all of the data. Over the two weeks, we measured their sleep

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

I assembled the most relentless legal team in the country. They stress-tested every argument until only the best ones survived. But I needed more.

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

I couldn't stop. Until I did. I created a company,

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

and have you contemplate what happens if your marriage doesn't last until the end of your life, whether because of divorce or outliving your spouse?

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

any one of us is unlikely to have a spouse by our side until our last dying breath. Regardless of whether we are partnered now,

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

A relational ask is easily the most well-hidden secret in negotiation. Until now. Research by Hannah Riley Bowles out of Harvard

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

"Well, what should I do instead," right? And until we're ready to actually fire the person or kick them out of bed

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

with a giant horse needle of glucagon to boost her blood sugar until she could take in calories on her own. I was terrified that she would not be OK

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

are associated with better health and quality of life. So until we fix the systems that are harming our health, we can all work to buffer the negative impact of these systems.

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

because I care a lot about how this shows up in the workplace, because we all, you know, at least for now, until the AI gets us, have to go into the workplace.

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

who never know what their body is experiencing. I didn't notice I was burning out until I was literally in the emergency room. But one of the things that causes burnout

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

we're going to keep doing Septima's work until her words become reality, until Black women are no longer dying,

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

until her words become reality, until Black women are no longer dying, until we can all breathe the air together.

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

until Black women are no longer dying, until we can all breathe the air together. Thank you.

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

people used to gather for these moonlight dances of sacred dance and music that would go on for hours and hours, until dawn. They were always magnificent, because the dancers were professionals

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

>> How do we know our true potential? I think that we don't know until we try. And I think that's

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

You Collective happens to the whole Community until War a natural disaster or a recession what's unique about the

Lifequakes

But I was so sick, I didn't really know what my doctors meant, until my family came in the room and started hugging me goodbye, and a priest read me my last rites.

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

the cures I'd never discover in memory of my mom. See, until then, I'd been waiting and hoping that some researcher somewhere would discover a treatment

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

no one has taken responsibility for systematically unlocking these hidden cures ... until now. We're utilizing artificial intelligence to scan across the world's knowledge

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

About 1,000 people died, and until now they have certified like 10,000 people that were affected. So people didn't know they were being intoxicated

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

cut and hack my days so wretchedly into small portions right up until the Middle Ages time keeping was an imprecise art

Timekeeping

Starting with billions of images with a descriptive caption like this, each image is degraded until nothing but visual noise is left. A random array of pixels.

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

I just don’t think we should be doing it now, until we know that we're doing a great job with adults. So what is that we should be doing then?

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

I suspect that some of you may have enjoyed that song up until the point you found out it was AI. And to me, that would imply

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

notes which then reverberate around the church until the next organist shows up I've been to that church in Germany

Leisure

(Laughter) So, Chung has had people yell at her until she cried, including a nine-year-old girl,

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

the third night, so on, until the eighth night. As you can see,

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

was with the guy who invented my coffee cup lid. And until this point, I had given approximately zero thought to coffee cup lids.

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

that when he couldn't enjoy life with me, my brother and my mom, he would die. And I took this at face value until one afternoon when I was 16. I went into their medicine cabinet looking for something

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

and more "nos" and more rejection until I made it big on Broadway in what has become the iconic musical of the '80s,

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

the simple act of thinking was until I came back to Hollywood from my triumphant run on Broadway, and I had this meeting with a big studio Hollywood casting director.

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

I was actually thinking about quitting. Until ... I started to think.

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

For example, let's have this relationship long-distance for two years until your degree is over. They make it time-bound.

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

macron is in big trouble in 2027 but he runs foreign policy still until then and he's going to be quite cohesive uh with

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

I'm well-informed, but I didn't know until recently that as much as a third of

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

not after it is broken. Because when you wait until it's broken, it's too late.

How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

But don't stop asking questions until you figure out as much as you can about the system. And then I think maybe I'd say the third piece of advice would be

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

But if you waited three and a half years until the infatuation was well and truly over, then the likelihood of divorce was reduced by a massive 48 percent.

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

arranged marriages have been the norm for the entire planet. Until then, romantic love only accidentally overlapped with marriage.

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

leaves many of us feeling that arranged marriages are old and irrelevant. At least I did until I came across some rather compelling research. Now I'm going to suggest

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

of difficult feelings as sleepy hedgehogs that you are fostering until you can find a way to set them free by turning toward them with kindness and compassion.

How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime | Emily Nagoski

and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken-word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant,

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

But you don't get to start on step three, until you take step one first: "I can."

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

nor my injurers. I much prefer to stretch my arms like Nüt until I become the sky. I'd rather stretch my tongue with truth,

"Chasms" | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

He and his wife had to flee Poland, bounce from country to country until they landed in the US with next to nothing, sleeping on floors.

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss | TED · TED

But you will never really know who you are or what you are capable of until you learn how to try. Thank you.

Forget the Corporate Ladder — Winners Take Risks | Molly Graham | TED · TED

but we didn't actually have pasteurized milk as a standard on American grocery stores’ shelves until 1915, a full 50 years later.

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

were a net negative in terms of human health until the invention of antibiotics in the 1940s. That's what life was like.

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

(Laughter) I meditated for days in silence in the jungle until I hallucinated. Although I'm pretty sure those cockroaches on steroids were real.

What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED · TED

I got really comfortable with being uncomfortable. I sobbed until I had no more tears left. I trembled with fear.

What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED · TED

and it often takes many, many tries until that magical moment when what you're trying to build comes to life.

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

and they kept seeing each other at climate events for years to come until they fell in love. They weren't the coolest parents

Your Inner Fire Is Your Greatest Strength | Xiye Bastida | TED · TED

in harmony and in balance. But you don't really learn insights from nature until you truly observe. When you truly immerse yourself.

Your Inner Fire Is Your Greatest Strength | Xiye Bastida | TED · TED

It simply never been done before. Until it was. So for reasons we're only beginning to understand,

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

But I believe the full potential of this digital Cambrian explosion won't be fully realized until we power our computers and robots with spatial intelligence,

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

Whatever makes you feel like that kid that asked "why" over and over until your parents wanted to scream. When I first started dating my husband, he called me "20 questions."

The Thrill of Not Knowing All the Answers | Harini Bhat | TED · TED

These arguments have gone back and forth for thousands of years. But until recently, there hasn't been any data to help us decide either way.

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED

And then the designs get refined in simulation until they meet the specifications. So in a few hours we can go from idea

How AI Will Step Off the Screen and into the Real World | Daniela Rus | TED · TED

But I think that it was true. And it wasn't until years later, when I was in college and studying basic physics,

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

They wanted to take it home with them, really. Until, one kid finally sliced it through and found really cool stuff inside. And so this is something we can do here together.

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

and it requires deep ecological expertise. Until now, we have been limited to poor facsimiles, like vast plantations of a single kind of tree.

Susan Graham: A new way to restore Earth's biodiversity -- from the air | TED · TED

Not just these prehistoric humans, but historical humans, indigenous people all the way up until the moment when the first colonizers showed up. And the case is the same for the other continents as well.

Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris

from Canada to Mexico. That is, until their habitat was converted to ranches and farmland. By 1981, there was only one colony of ferrets living in Wyoming.

Ryan Phelan: The intended consequences of helping nature thrive | TED · TED

to the Atlantic Ocean for centuries. Until they were basically extinct in the wild, with only several horses left in captivity.

Ryan Phelan: The intended consequences of helping nature thrive | TED · TED

and hardwood furniture. And until 1800, there were four billion of these trees across the forest

Ryan Phelan: The intended consequences of helping nature thrive | TED · TED

there were four billion of these trees across the forest until blight, a fungal blight that came in, imported, invasive species,

Ryan Phelan: The intended consequences of helping nature thrive | TED · TED

poised on tin roofs, armed with hoses until the smoke and embers clung to their clothes. I felt despair.

Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable | TED · TED

or act on the many opportunities it presents us with until we've mobilized mindsets. So how do we shift out of despair,

Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable | TED · TED

are now facing extinction at a rate that is insane. Since the early 1970s until today, 2020, the world’s wildlife has been reduced by 68 percent.

Love, sorrow and the emotions that power climate action | Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug

I actually felt even angrier until one day I saw my dad pushing the stroller the exact same

Why Venting Doesn’t Help You Deal with Anger | Jennifer Parlamis | TED · TED

And then I repeat this process 29 more times until I save 29 more versions of that same damn video. until sometimes I honestly still don't upload it

Is Perfectionism Just Procrastination in Disguise? | Jon Youshaei | TED · TED

until I save 29 more versions of that same damn video. until sometimes I honestly still don't upload it because it's still not good enough.

Is Perfectionism Just Procrastination in Disguise? | Jon Youshaei | TED · TED

for over three years. Until at the last moment, when they were supposed to debut the paintings in Paris,

Is Perfectionism Just Procrastination in Disguise? | Jon Youshaei | TED · TED

some work that needs to be done in order to achieve it. Ideally you would not be satisfied until you'd actually done the work. But when you tell someone your goal and they acknowledge it,

Keep your goals to yourself | Derek Sivers

You can also see this with the algorithm through words like "hyperpop," part of our cultural lexicon until Spotify noticed an emerging cluster of similar users in their algorithm.

Why Are People Starting to Sound Like ChatGPT? | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

you hold them for as long as you can, until, like up on that mountain, something happens,

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

dark, peaceful in the countryside. Until some economists said, you know, is that the right way to measure CO2?

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

The concept of global citizenship, self-evident in its logic but until now impractical in many ways, has coincided with this particular moment in which we are privileged to live.

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

And so I decided I’d better do this for another day, and another day, and another day until finally, I promised myself for a year I would keep quiet

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED