How native speakers pronounce “wait”

I need to speak to her privately. Wait here. We'll be back. We won't be very long," and they went and left her.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

I'll still take the drug." But wait a minute. Remember under stress you're not thinking clearly.

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

The Hare Krishna laid my burdens down and said he'd wait with me. Would I have chosen to spend 2 hours in

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

what's the square root of 117 trillion? Go ahead, I'll wait. (Laughter)

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

to use cannabis to get a better night's sleep, you'll just need to wait for the evidence to grow. (Laughter)

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

work together and stay ambitious, hope stops being a thing we wait to feel and becomes something we create.

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

You're right. And we can wait for gender parity. Estimates are it will only take 191 years.

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

(Laughter) But I'm going to make you wait a second, because I should give you a little background on me.

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

and that could include things like, "Don't wait for Tom to ask if you found any errors before you say, 'Tom, I found some errors.'"

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

I'm thinking that, you know, I can't wait for this to happen organically. OK, I'm afraid they're going to reject me,

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

And as we were having the discussion, about 10 minutes in, 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."

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

The colleague on the call says, "Wait, what do you mean? I don't understand." So my client proceeds to explain about the stories about Black folks' homes

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

but that does not mean that you've dealt with the stress itself. This is excellent news, because it means that you don't have to wait for your stressor to be gone before you can begin to feel better,

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

The doctor's office is only a place that you go when you don't feel well. And when you do go, you might wait for hours only to get the run-around

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

Christan Hansen: Adam, wait. They need an interpreter.

How AI Can Bridge the Deaf and Hearing Worlds | Adam Munder | TED · TED

I'm a leading signatory of the "Pause" letter, where we and 30,000 other people asked the AI labs to wait six months before building the next version.

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

And a nation so rich that when a pandemic strikes, people can afford to wait that out at home while scientists, like --

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

why are eulogies only for dead people? Why do we wait so long to recognize each other's gifts? Why are the truest compliments and the sincerest sentiments

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

Think about that. Older employees tell me that they can't wait to retire. And when I ask about life at home,

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

At least sometimes, you can't wait for retirement to start a family, so look for the right balance and harmony.

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

I wouldn't be alive any other time, and I cannot wait to see where it goes. We've been holding ...

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

than the world seeing something fail. Sometimes I wait months before I even tell him about a certain project

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · 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

instruction all the time that I've heard in schools the kids wait to like to fill out their name on a piece of paper.

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

drops to the ground and they wait to be either for the teacher to come and pick it up or for

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

because there's a car a block away and they want to wait for it to get all the way across the street and you see that

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

And they are not necessarily couples who constantly can't wait to keep their hands off each other. Some of them are.

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

that this life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you

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

we will bridge disparity and injustice, and we can't wait to see you all on the other side. Thank you.

"Chasms" | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

and see a criminal before child; who will call the police and not wait for them to come. Do I even want the police to come?

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

We were trained to dodge, to wait, to cower and cover, to wait more, still, wait.

Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016? | TED · TED

to wait, to cower and cover, to wait more, still, wait. We were told to be silent.

Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016? | TED · TED

Bring your shoulder around ever so slightly towards your chin. And wait for me right here. Everyone else in the trousers and the pants,

Why Body Language Is the Key to Self-Expression — and Hot Selfies | David Suh | TED · TED

and we've got to do it now. We cannot wait for them to learn how to be brave like I did when I was 33 years old.

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

and overcome some of those early disadvantages. So wait, does that actually mean, then, that poverty doesn't matter after all?

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

from our own bodies and from our curiosities. Because nowadays, when we have a question, we don't wait and phone a friend. We friend our phones.

3 Habits to Practice Curiosity — and Escape Your Phone | Nayeema Raza | TED · TED

and make it so captivating that someone scrolling at 2am stops and goes, “Wait, what?” Because science is for everyone, not dumbed down,

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

someone else has got 100 billion dollars invested in their thing. Isn't someone going to go, "Wait a sec. If we used reinforcement learning here

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

when we deploy them in a physical world in the wild. We just wait for the next release. Because of what's happening inside the liquid neuron,

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

(Laughter) I mean, OK, wait, we do have some robots in our home, but, not really doing anything that exciting, OK?

Why Don’t We Have Better Robots Yet? | Ken Goldberg | TED · TED

No rationale can take away the pain you feel. So don't search for one, don't wait for one, just accept the one you were offered or make up one yourself

How to fix a broken heart | Guy Winch | TED · TED

We don't have the luxury of time to stand by and wait and see what happens for the thousands of plants and animals at risk today.

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

So I resave that file as "FINAL_FINAL." But then I'm like, wait, I can make the audio a bit better. I can make the color more saturated. Let me resave it as "FINAL_BUT_ACTUALLY."

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

The most we could do in those days was fire off a letter and wait for the next election. There was no social media.

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

it belongs to all of us. You don't have to wait on anyone to tell you that you are in this.

Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care | Cleo Wade