How native speakers pronounce “weren”

(Laughter) People weren't aware they could have that. (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and they could still find their nuts. They weren't using smell, they were using the hippocampus, this exquisitely evolved mechanism in the brain for finding things.

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

already had two very involved parents, they weren't really in need of a third. After a particularly big blow up over chores and responsibilities,

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

than those we asked to connect with the person sitting next to them. People’s beliefs about social interaction here weren’t just wrong -- they were precisely backward.

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

“The child would not have survived” -- is what we were told. We weren't obviously there. Those moments actually cause entire communities

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

we had a car that worked, my parents weren't stressed about bills or their ability to get the best education for me and my three siblings.

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

What we were doing was not some trick. We weren't pulling some fast one over on the court when we predicted these things.

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

There's a lot of basic research that still hasn't been done. In part, that's just because there weren't a lot of scientists in the field who were women, to ask questions about it.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

are going to drag us back to the good old days, which, to be honest, weren't that good to begin with. Someday, single living and married living

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

Thank you. I thought we weren't supposed to applaud authoritarians here at TED. (Laughter)

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

All of the sudden, the dishes in the sink weren't representations of her failure as a wife, but instead she would look at the pile

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

What do they have in common? They weren't created by humans in the traditional sense. They were generated by AI.

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

my doctors gave me a combination of seven chemotherapies that weren't meant for my disease. Amazingly, they worked, I survived, I returned to medical school,

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

shuck habits that we didn't like or weren't good for us a doctor had to shed the idea that he should always be busy

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The good news is that those seven chemotherapies that had saved my life, they weren't made for my disease. So I thought to myself,

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

and we were so hopeful we would get it, and then, we weren't selected. (Laughter)

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

But unfortunately, the treatments we discovered for me weren't working for this patient. He was getting ready to say goodbye to his wife and daughter,

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

And I wanted to be sure that we were making things that weren't hurting the environment. And I knew that the people in my community had incredible skill

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

Today, Luddite is a broad-spectrum term for technophobes. But the Luddites weren't your mom using a landline instead of a cell phone or sending you Hallmark cards with little words underlined.

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

Some of my strongest performers did not have stratospheric IQ scores. Some of my smartest kids weren't doing so well. And that got me thinking.

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED · TED

And I have a lot of like empathy to people who are just like, "I wish this change weren't happening. I liked the way things were before."

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

And maybe, on balance, I wish this weren't happening. Or maybe I wish it were happening a little slower.

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

for all of the reasons that you asked earlier, as we weren't sure about the impact these systems were going to have and how to make them safe,

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

Every time I was in the ICU, they'd give me seven chemotherapies, but they weren't made for my disease. And I kept thinking,

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

And we were just seeing that we weren't equipped, our systems aren't equipped to deal with so many of these things

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

other rare diseases. We've now repurposed 14 drugs for diseases they weren't intended for. And now thousands of patients are alive because of these drugs

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

And now thousands of patients are alive because of these drugs that weren't made for their disease. But about three years ago, we decided to really scale things.

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

Um 25% weren't allowed to play on their own front lawn.

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

as her own. So we weren't thinking at all about predators.

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

Called crazy or drama or too much drinking, his actions weren't understood to be what they really were, which was clear signs of danger.

The difference between healthy and unhealthy love | Katie Hood | TED · TED

anyone who looked like me before. They weren't just there for a show, they were there for everyone who had ever been told,

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

because you already said you didn’t want that job. You told the universe you weren’t into working like that. You don’t want a job --

How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED

were significantly less likely to be in poverty at the age of 30 than those whose parents weren't doing those things. Now, there are huge challenges with interpreting this type of science.

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

until they fell in love. They weren't the coolest parents because they were the only people I knew talking about climate change,

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

the police chief, who had agreed to his sleeping arrangement, was nowhere to be found, and the guards weren’t buying his story. Few people have the time or desire to walk such extreme lengths.

Do you really need to take 10,000 steps a day? - Shannon Odell

The craziest thing was, Tetrahymena cells never got old and died. Their telomeres weren't shortening as time marched on. Sometimes they even got longer.

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

Here's what hit me. People weren't following me because I was an expert. They were following me because I was curious.

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

directly from the pixels, the raw pixels on the screen, but they weren't being told anything else. So they were being told, maximize the score,

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

For example, if you put a grain of sand under there, it would react very differently than if there weren't a grain of sand. And we can't see if there's a grain of sand because it's under the bottle.

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

even with profit motivation in mind, they weren't done for conservation benefit. And sadly, we never hear about the success stories.

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

have known to be true. They weren't born leaders. They simply decided to make themselves personally responsible.

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

but the dates were just OK and they weren't turning into second dates. I figured that I couldn't be the least dateable person in New York City,

How to Unlock Your Flirting Superpowers | Francesca Hogi | TED · TED

Now, things changed when I discovered African books. There weren't many of them available, and they weren't quite as easy to find as the foreign books.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

There weren't many of them available, and they weren't quite as easy to find as the foreign books. But because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

in the Central Valley of California that weren't hurt when the housing bubble burst and when the price of gas went up;

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

And so what came to me is, if you were a teacher and you were teaching, if you weren’t learning you probably weren’t teaching very well.

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

and you were teaching, if you weren’t learning you probably weren’t teaching very well. And so I went on.

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

none of you would be listening to me right now. And listen, my parents weren't wrong to warn me about the lethal tendencies of this country.

R. Alan Brooks: When the world is burning, is art a waste of time? | TED · TED