How native speakers pronounce “wouldn”

And I said, “Yeah, duh.” Because who wouldn't do that? Who in their right mind wouldn't do that?

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Because who wouldn't do that? Who in their right mind wouldn't do that? Apparently that was pretty motivating, though,

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but I am deserving of my own best efforts. Life is effort. Why wouldn’t I try? I spent far too long believing that joy was for someone more deserving than me.

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I think now they'd say she had ADHD. Wouldn't you? But this was the 1930s, and ADHD hadn't been invented at this point.

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so I got stuck in the back of the plane, next to the bathrooms, in a seat that wouldn't recline, on an eight-hour flight. Well, I had a lot of time to think during those eight hours and no sleep.

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The number should be one. My doctor wouldn't prescribe something to me if it's not going to help.

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♪ A full commitment's what I'm thinking of ♪ ♪ You wouldn't get this from any other guy ♪ ♪ I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling ♪

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I can’t say that I blame the auto thieves. I probably wouldn't want to steal a car either. And this concept of drone as first responder

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This is a distribution pole with signs of a short and a fire that they wouldn't have caught any other way. So thanks to the drone footage, they knew exactly where it was.

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But notice that if you believe that talking with a stranger would suck, you wouldn't try it, and then you'd never find out that you might be wrong about that.

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that even if complied with, wouldn't necessarily save her son. I didn't tell her.

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and something we relied on. Messing that up wouldn’t have just cost me -- it would have put our freedom at risk.

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Moving forward mattered more than being healed. My mother was terrified I wouldn't survive, so she gave me what she knew:

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and it can be difficult to access. So wouldn't it be great if we had an alternative treatment for insomnia that was safe, easy to access and gave us quick results?

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Conscious AI might suffer the click of a mouse, perhaps in ways we wouldn't even recognize. And if silicon can be sentient,

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Now if the fine details of the brain do matter for consciousness, well, wouldn't this be enough for consciousness to happen inside a machine?

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AH: OK, we're at TED. So it wouldn't be TED if we didn't ask a question about AI. We hear a lot these days about what AI might do to society,

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Like, is any part of you feeling that that's a little bit reckless? Peter Steinberger: I wouldn't say so. I see my work as a ...

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That this new version of the Taliban wouldn't ban girls from school or oppress women. The Afghans I spoke with didn't believe it.

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(Laughter) But I mean, I wouldn't let my husband do that in the office either. It's just, you know, setting matters.

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hoping that my neighbors would someday try to be my friends, it probably wouldn't happen, right? And so I would need to make that effort

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If everybody was fantasizing on a bed of roses, we wouldn't be having such interesting talks about this. (Laughter)

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you can create resilience. Now I wouldn't necessarily ask for more stressful experiences in my life, but this science has given me a whole new appreciation for stress.

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And she showed me how to make just the right crimp so they wouldn't open, and she makes them with her daughters every Sunday

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

and grab it on the page. And other times she wouldn't be fast enough, so she'd be running and running, and she wouldn't get to the house

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And other times she wouldn't be fast enough, so she'd be running and running, and she wouldn't get to the house and the poem would barrel through her and she would miss it

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

On a usual Saturday, you wouldn't find me here. And I mean, of course, I don’t give TEDx Talks every Saturday.

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And I mean, of course, I don’t give TEDx Talks every Saturday. But what I mean is, you probably wouldn't find me in a museum. Rather, if you were looking for me,

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where this lie detection technology wouldn't just provide us with a simple judgment, but also with clear explanations for why it thinks someone else is lying.

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and grace and compassion, who wouldn't be tempted to take them out for a nice meal? Well, maybe somewhere with good Wi-Fi just in case.

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on how to avoid nudging consumers towards behaviors or decisions they wouldn't make if fully informed. Well-being, honesty, autonomy.

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if anybody found out what I had done they wouldn't love me a transition by its very nature is an

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Can you imagine a world without human joy? I really wouldn't want that. So I'm going to tell you also about AI capabilities and AI agency,

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If we didn't have this present moment, we wouldn't have any opportunity to do anything or experience anything,

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to do something with it, you wouldn't be grateful for it. Opportunity is the gift within every gift,

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

So things like becoming a beekeeper and putting away enough honey that he knew wouldn't spoil so that we would have it for decades.

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What if I had stopped after all of those moments of feeling defeated? I wouldn't be standing there for that golden moment.

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it takes a while for people to get comfortable. I remember when I wouldn't put my credit card on the internet because my parents had convinced me someone was going to read the number,

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I think this is an incredible time to be alive. I wouldn't be alive any other time, and I cannot wait to see where it goes.

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But ultimately creates a deal and Trump gets a Nobel Peace Prize I wouldn't bet on that I think it's unlikely the

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that looks totally, completely rational and absolutely, and why wouldn't you? And also, if you're an engineer,

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even if it was something I was dreading for weeks beforehand, I wouldn't say no just because I think I was afraid

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in order to support her own tuition so that Andy wouldn't have had to bear the entire burden for that. And Andy might have decided to take that job in that other city

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and saved for a day when they might actually need it. And maybe the mortgage that they took on wouldn't have been as onerous, and maybe Andy wouldn't have had to work so hard to make those payments.

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And maybe the mortgage that they took on wouldn't have been as onerous, and maybe Andy wouldn't have had to work so hard to make those payments. And maybe he would have become less resentful.

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Because if it was easy to solve, then someone else would have done it and we wouldn't be working so hard. So we've got to be humble because these are tough challenges.

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like heroin. but but they wouldn't be on them as much if they had an alternative.

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was they had a nine-year-old who wouldn't go upstairs or downstairs in his own house without a parent.

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Now, you wouldn't believe it, but tonight,

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Sound like I could wake up and realize the death of my daughter wouldn't even be newsworthy. So you can't tell me that Sandra Bland is the only Black woman

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AI is complicated. Maybe people wouldn't understand what we were asking them. Maybe we'd end up with something awful.

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If we had kept mortality rates where they were in 1920, we wouldn't have anywhere near the magnitude of the climate crisis we're facing now

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of the climate crisis we're facing now because there simply wouldn't have been enough people on the planet to emit enough carbon into the atmosphere to make a meaningful difference.

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like being broke from the age of 40 to 45. But even still, I wouldn’t trade that for the safe and settled version, because if I had, I would not be here with y’all today.

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(Laughter) And wouldn't it be great to think that all we had to do to have happy, successful children

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or if I had a history of heart issues. I vowed to myself that I wouldn't put myself through that for activism, because that's not what activism is about.

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that you and others were pushed to do stuff that you wouldn't have done without this sort of catalyzing competitive thing. Meta did something similar as well.

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or, "The vase broke itself." If it's an accident, you wouldn't say that someone did it. In English, quite weirdly, we can even say things like,

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A tightrope walker doesn't practice new tricks without a net underneath, and an athlete wouldn't set out to first try a new move during a championship match.

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He was disgusted when talking to me, as if he was saying to himself, "If this was the last girl on Earth, I wouldn't look at her!" What's the meaning of saying "menu" in Arabic?

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

then it isn't a local product. You wouldn't believe it's a local product. They'd go back to being consumers,

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

We didn't say, "No! We do not accept this or that." We didn't adopt this style because that way, we wouldn't be understood. And when someone talks to me that way, I hate the Arabic language.

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

I will keep on saying "Internet" I wouldn't say: "I'm going to the world wide web" (Laughs)

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

When my daughter is born, I'll tell her, "This is your father, honey (Arabic)." I wouldn't say, "This is your dad, honey (English)." And in the supermarket, I promise my daughter Noor,

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

to study their fundamental quantum mechanical properties. But even I wouldn't know where to start in terms of testing elements on my phone if it broke.

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Because about five of my friends were like, "Wooo, I wouldn't want to be your therapist." (Laughter)

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there's a lot of the planet that counts as nature, but this would be one of the few places that wouldn't count as nature. There's nothing there except humans, no other plants, no other animals.

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decades of evidence for myself, I am fairly sure that I wouldn't believe it either. But the bottom line is that emotions are not built into your brain at birth.

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And if we're to try to help kids like Sonny Boy, it wouldn't work just to try to send him a few dollars or to try to clean up the garbage dump on which he lived,

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And so I told my mother, "I’m happy though, I’m really happy." She said, "If you were happy, son, you wouldn’t have to say it." Mothers are like that.

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But even if the car had been trained to recognize yellow fire trucks, it wouldn't go through the same thought process we do when we see an emergency vehicle.

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In effect, it's predicting whether they'll commit one in future. But ideally, we wouldn't just try and predict future crimes using an opaque algorithm.

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with easily replaceable screens and batteries. I mean, wouldn't that be great? And like many other historical examples,

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which systematically learn from the history of public policy? And wouldn't it be fascinating to visit a "History for Tomorrow Museum," which explores how history can help us confront 21st-century challenges,

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would be a thing of the past, and we wouldn't have to worry about the polar bears anymore. But time and time again,

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could get a Black boy brutally murdered. So why wouldn't they be concerned about me standing out as some bohemian artsy dude? So as a Black artist, I've had to ask myself:

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