How native speakers pronounce “waiting”

really wanted a girl so my parents who were on a waiting list got a call in the middle of the

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

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bookstores in Nashville closed, and after waiting around for someone else to open a bookstore, I decided to do it myself.

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but she hadn't decided yet, so she'd spent the last few years waiting tables instead. Because it was cheaper, she lived with a boyfriend

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There's always that child that is still standing on the line and waiting for that opportunity. And let’s not forget that that child of war today,

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It's not gone. It's just waiting. The lobster is loose,

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they're looking for their person, sometimes waiting hopelessly. The just-may singles are open to possibilities,

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And as I was nursing a broken heart after one of my near misses, it hit me. I'm not half waiting for a whole. I'm wholehearted.

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We're going to be healthier and stronger when we work together. There's probably someone already waiting who also wants the kind of relationship that you are desiring.

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every time we went, either waiting on their favorite barber or just soaking up the atmosphere.

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you're capable of, you have vast reservoirs of potential waiting to be tapped for just the right moment

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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

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Like, you're telling me that there are dying people waiting for a drug to be discovered, but actually, they can just go down to their corner pharmacy,

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to a slower and better life so what are you waiting for let's start putting on the brakes

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which I'm going to play you a clip of. (Audio) There’s a starman waiting in the sky He’d like to come and meet us

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but he thinks he’d blow our minds There’s a starman waiting in the sky (Music ends)

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Look at them for a second. I will be waiting here. (Laughter)

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They were liberating moments. So one day, I was standing on a corner waiting for the light to change, which, I'm a New Yorker,

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and forming a group of 25. After almost two years of paperwork and waiting, we learned that our family would be arriving in Vancouver

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of like a little toddler sitting in a doctor's office waiting room or something, and there was a magazine, like one of those old,

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They are lurking. They're waiting for their moment to strike. And the second you screw up, there'll be a few negative comments.

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That's how that works, I think. So they're all there. waiting. I'm waiting to get canceled one day.

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

So they're all there. waiting. I'm waiting to get canceled one day. Everyone does.

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What did that mean? It didn't mean that Mr. Right is somehow waiting behind door number two. It meant that if you want to understand

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That's like literally showing patients that are here because of a repurposed drug and also those who are waiting for a drug. And I think that being able to really visualize,

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you've got at your disposal, while you're hanging around, waiting from them to work, you've got to start to wonder why this clearly bizarre treatment

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people at work being very um I'd say conscientious but waiting for instructions.

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And when we got to this hotel, he was waiting for us and he was so kind and so generous. And he called the waiter and he said to the waiter,

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And it's like, very mystical. It’s filled with a lot of uncertainty and doubt, waiting for the muse. It turns out you can't write a 350-page book that way.

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And so that's what we did. Now waiting for lab results can sometimes be a nerve-racking experience. Honestly, it's kind of like waiting for the results of a pregnancy test.

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Now waiting for lab results can sometimes be a nerve-racking experience. Honestly, it's kind of like waiting for the results of a pregnancy test. You’re excited, anxious and hopeful for a positive outcome.

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And I know that I have been waiting all week to tell this joke. (Laughter)

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knowing that while you're speaking, they aren't just waiting for their turn to talk -- they hear you. They feel exactly what you feel

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Growing small requires enormity of will: just sitting still in the doctor's waiting room watching the future shuffle in and out,

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It keeps us dancing on this string, waiting for this elusive, better day to miraculously appear. Now thanks to Lolly’s tutelage, that’s not my story.

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This, by the way, is a second. Studies show waiting that long before taking action lets your brain work better.

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Now that’s some progress, but it's not exactly the home robot that we've all been waiting for. So I want to give you a little bit of an idea

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when we give it a tangled cable at being able to untangle it. The other one is something I think we also all are waiting for: robot to fold the laundry.

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It’s been 60 years, and we're still waiting for the robots that the Jetsons had. Why is this difficult?

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and frankly, to little curious me, this was the moment I'd been waiting for my entire life. So 2015 was go time.

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the willingness to do something where there are no guarantees ... the willingness to breathe through waiting for the doctor to call after your mammogram.

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We numb vulnerability -- when we're waiting for the call. It was funny, I sent something out on Twitter and on Facebook

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being turned down; asking someone out; waiting for the doctor to call back; getting laid off; laying off people.

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I thought the meaning was out there, some great truth waiting to be found. But over time,

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Cities underwater. The kind of place no one wants to find waiting for them when they grow up.

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So if your brain were to predict a churning stomach in, say, a hospital room while you're waiting for test results, then your brain will be constructing dread

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unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner. I would see Africans in the same way that I,

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