How native speakers pronounce “used”

They're the people who come out the top. And I used to be one, so there. (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

She's wonderful. I used to be on the board of The Royal Ballet, as you can see. (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

while running Microsoft Bill Gates Used To Hide Away in a cabin in the woods for

Slow Thinking

You ought to know about what the technology is capable of, how it’s being used in every facet of society, so we can have the discussion about what we want to do with it.

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

That was the moment I realized, 30 is not the new 20. Yes, people settle down later than they used to, but that didn't make Alex's 20s a developmental downtime.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

If they read a book I hadn’t read, I read it. Or if they used a word I’d never heard in Oshkosh, I wrote it down on a piece of paper, and I would work it into my vocabulary.

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

I could fulfill my life dream just by simply asking. I used to think I have to accomplish all these things -- have to be a great entrepreneur, or get a PhD to teach --

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

with four moons circling around it. He then used those moons to follow the path of Jupiter and found that Jupiter also was not going around the Earth

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

we found that teens with sleep problems were 55% more likely to have used alcohol in the past month. In another study with over 30,000 high school students,

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

Your calendar probably went next. Then little judgment calls you used to make for yourself. The tool was great at it, so you let the tool do it.

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

but a technology we all use every day is learning to hear our thoughts. The Face ID system used to unlock your phone is being repositioned into headphones and glasses,

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

for building materials. It's been used in religious ceremonies and for its health benefits.

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

and for its health benefits. And, apparently, it’s been used for fun. (Laughter)

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

Cannabinoids might also be helpful for treating some sleep disorders. Most commonly, it's been used to treat insomnia. In fact, some surveys report

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

that was safe, easy to access and gave us quick results? Well, we know that cannabis has been used to help sleep probably for thousands of years,

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

and there's plenty of reports of improved sleep in people who have used cannabinoids for treating other medical conditions. We just don't have good evidence that it can help with insomnia.

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

And how do these health benefits of ASMR compare to the therapeutic pros and cons of medications used to treat anxiety and insomnia? And lastly,

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

he actually isolated hormones that are still used to help women get pregnant today, though now, they can be synthesized in a lab,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

which makes them excellent to use in neuroscience research. And, in fact, the scientist Eric Kandel used them in his research to understand how memories are stored.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

I think he understood the power of prediction and used it to get himself life insurance. Smart astrologer.

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

and tech executives whisper in the ears of our leaders, much like court astrologers used to. Granted, the technology is different,

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

And it really got rolling with the invention of the spinning wheel. The spinsters who used it could earn their own money and escape being owned by a husband or a father.

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

I have now reviewed 13,000 pages of academic research on this topic, and I used it to create a formula you can use to ask for what you want.

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

What do you think?" The woman who used those words was successfully promoted. Here's another one.

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

because I should give you a little background on me. I used to be an anchorman. I worked at ABC News for 21 years.

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

I went to a major firm and I brought people together who were used to working with one another, and we had them engage in a negotiation.

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

They talked about specific meetings where I used to be a prosecutor and was now delightful. One person said, “His ego is shrinking,” which I think was a compliment.

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

(Laughter) You know, it used to be that in order to have a polite conversation, we just had to follow the advice of Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady":

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

You know what I realized, too, from the research on friendship, I used to think that making friends was about being interesting, being smart, being insightful, being charismatic, being entertaining.

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

or what we today like to call a passionate marriage, used to be a contradiction in terms. Marriage was an economic institution

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

So we come to one person, and we basically are asking them to give us what once an entire village used to provide. Give me belonging, give me identity,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

of Eros, of energy that sex used to afford them, or that they've hoped it would afford them.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

When I was younger, I used to think that being in the same life stage was a prerequisite for having things in common,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

If you do the same exercises in the same order, your bodies get used to it, and you plateau. That's because routines also reduce our capability to improve.

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

We had a male coach who used to make us do a lot of the same workouts as the men. It didn't matter whether we were lightweights or we were open weights,

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

But before that, what actually happened was, I used to think about it as, you could take care of your health,

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

"Do you believe that stress is harmful for your health?" And then they used public death records to find out who died. (Laughter)

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

people in your community?" And then they used public records for the next five years to find out who died.

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

Her sons, one of whom had asthma, were no longer as sick as they used to be. She had gotten better, and not coincidentally,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

centuries ago in the deserts of North Africa, people used to gather for these moonlight dances of sacred dance and music that would go on for hours and hours, until dawn.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

Great. Now, follow-up question. How many of you have heard the word "unalive" being used in person? OK, I'm getting, like, 40, 50 percent.

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

independent from the straight white norms of the English language. But when those words began to be used online, they were quickly taken by people who wanted to capitalize

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

goes from an African-American English pronunciation of "goddamn" to being used as a noun for "butt" in memes like the song, it's ultimately exaggerated

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

We should be aware when our language regurgitates extremist rhetoric. And we should be aware when that language can be used to harm other people. We should be aware of etymology in general,

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

And with that, I have just one final piece of slang for you. It's a common phrase used by younger people when we finish a long-winded explanation of something.

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

So what theory did we use to get this result? We used ideas from statistical physics, and these are the equations. Now, for the rest of this entire talk,

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

And well, I'm here today because I'm about to tell you how AI could be used to detect lies. And you will be very surprised by the answer.

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

And only after the training was completed, we used them as a test, as the final exam. But who was our student then?

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

and we tested it on the third remaining one, and we used all three possible combinations. For the last final experiment,

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

Who should be overseeing this incredibly powerful asset, and how can we make sure it is being used responsibly? I think businesses should take the lead.

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

Transparency should be built across the entire experience, from the language used to the accessibility and clarity of data privacy policies.

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

to ensure that users are truly informed not only how their data is being used, but also how AI operates. Transparency is about acknowledging the limitations of AI.

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

through one of these times more effectively these tools are rarely used in sequence they don't need to be

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A description of the cartoon, explanation of the humor. OK, if you've used ChatGPT, you sort of get the idea now. Put a number of examples like this.

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

78 percent of people in my conversations said they used rituals to help them get through their difficult time after one

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An estimated 80 percent of 13-year-old girls in America have already used filters or some kind of editing to alter their appearance online.

How Digital Culture Is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies | Elise Hu | TED · TED

and that a decades-old transplant drug might be able to turn it off. It had never been used before for my disease, but I was out of options.

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

after we repurposed a melanoma drug to treat his rare cancer, which is now being used all over the world for that rare cancer. With every one of these discoveries,

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

but we're already helping patients. The very first time we used a high-scoring drug from our algorithm was for a patient with Castleman disease, the disease that I have.

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

We recommended three drugs that are commonly used for multiple myeloma, which is similar to POEMS syndrome,

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

to stand hold a paintbrush or even see that well Matisse used enormous scissors to cut saturated pieces of paper into

Create

summoned memories of places he loved in other words he used his own life story to write a new story of creativity

Create

started to cook then write poetry then paint I used to get out my hostility by splattering the enemy with bullets he

Create

and reduce the emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. And the fossil fuel industry has used a lot of bright, shiny objects to divert the public's attention

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

other parts I used to be that then I went through a change now I am this

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as all of that CO2. My research team in Texas used these newer handheld devices to detect and quantify methane emissions

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

two make pigs fly the author John Steinbeck used to sign his name in books with a quirky logo of

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In fact, he's working in these same plants where his uncle and his dad used to work. But now he's an owner of that plant,

A Bold Idea to Rebuild the Working Class | Molly Hemstreet | TED · TED

So the technique hasn't advanced that much since then. Mercury is used because it's an easy way to extract the gold. So what the miners do is, the gold is like, in the sandy form,

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

It's an international concern. And it's not because it harms just the place where it's used. For example, there are even very high levels of mercury in the whales,

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

new level Taylor used a stopwatch and a slide rule to figure out how long Factory workers

Timekeeping

and of course, things that we just can't talk about. It used to be a case would come across my desk once a month. And then it was once a week.

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

the world is also more competitive than it used to be and that cranks up the pressure to push children harder and harder

Family

It's not fun and games, of course, because generative AI is being used to supercharge past threats and create entirely new ones.

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

The creation of nudes of real women and children used to humiliate or extort them. Fake videos of doctors promoting bogus cures for serious illnesses.

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

slow romance it doesn't look like it used to Fisher has found that many young people

Romance

And I understand. I used to have the same thoughts. How can this hurt us any more than this, right?

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

that the scientific knowledge that these systems have could be used to build dangerous weapons. For example, by terrorists.

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

Well, here's the good news. The Scientist AI could be used as a guardrail against the bad actions of an untrusted AI agent.

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

But in 2022, a dataset that included their works was used to train a popular AI image model. Their name was one of many used by huge numbers of people

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

was used to train a popular AI image model. Their name was one of many used by huge numbers of people to create art in the style of specific human artists.

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

Creators and rights holders strongly disagree, saying there's no way this narrow exception can be used to legitimize the mass exploitation of creative work

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

from what they see as unjust competition right now. So they propose a solution that has been used and worked before -- licensing.

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

The Data Provenance Initiative looked at 14,000 websites commonly used in AI training sets, and they found that, over the course of a single year,

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

I'm not arguing that AI should not exist. What I'm arguing is that the resources used to build generative AI should be paid for.

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

For a few weeks, I would text him throughout the day, exchanging little jokes, just like we always used to, telling him what was going on,

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

It gets even messier when you look at the range of ways that AI can be used to create music. So, for example,

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

So, for example, what if I used AI to help with some song lyrics? Is that much different than, say, a rhyming dictionary?

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

Is that much different than, say, a rhyming dictionary? What if I used AI to create a new instrument sound that's never existed? Is that much different than a synthesizer?

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

Looks good to me. By the way, a writer's block used to be staring at a blank page. Now it's staring at a page that AI filled out for me

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

But sometimes you can have both. I used to think there was no such thing as a free lunch in human thinking. This is so much better than a free lunch.

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

even though he really did not like to talk about it. And he always used to say that when he couldn't enjoy life with me, my brother and my mom, he would die.

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

and it was still perfect. The ancient Egyptians used honey as a sweetener and also as a natural antibiotic.

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

we had to work with a resource that toddlers really care about, so we used the toddler equivalent of gold, namely, Goldfish crackers.

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

and to connect with the individuals and communities they're helping. We're used to thinking about giving as something we should do. And it is.

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

for the past few years, so I had gotten used to writing about my own experiences with romantic love on my blog.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

that somehow says that any named individual in a prompt whose work is then used, they should get something for that? SA: So right now, if you use our image-gen thing and say,

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

The participants did feel closer after doing it, and several subsequent studies have also used Aron's fast friends protocol as a way to quickly create trust and intimacy between strangers.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

as a way to quickly create trust and intimacy between strangers. They've used it between members of the police and members of community, and they've used it between people of opposing political ideologies.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

They've used it between members of the police and members of community, and they've used it between people of opposing political ideologies. The original version of the story,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron