How native speakers pronounce “wrote”

When she was at school, she was really hopeless. And the school, in the '30s, wrote to her parents and said, "We think Gillian has a learning disorder."

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

technically portable at 14 lb because I wrote stories. I also had a shoulder bag

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

on tour regularly since 1992. This one for a novel I wrote called State of Wonder was going to be my

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

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. If they were fitter than I were, I'd try to copy their habits.

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

I thought, wow, I know what I want to do now. That night I wrote a letter to my family telling them: "By age 25,

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

Why is that? Where is that 14-year-old who wrote that letter? It's not because he didn't try.

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

(Cheers) At the time, it was just a theme song I wrote. I didn't know how I was transmuting.

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

through success I could have never imagined. I even wrote a "New York Times" best selling book about how I did it, how I became a "Master of Me."

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

"Frankenstein," which Mary Shelley wrote when she was just 19, is often taken as a cautionary tale,

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

for starters. Hannah Arendt wrote that it's pointless to argue with a murderer about whether their future victim is dead or alive.

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

and his 60-year-old dad, Gerhard, a beer sommelier who never wrote a single line of code. They connected OpenClaw via Bluetooth,

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

I spoke on television, I wrote a blog for the BBC and I appeared in a “New York Times” documentary.

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

have a constitutional right to marry. Here is a sense of what Justice Kennedy wrote: “Marriage responds to the universal fear that a lonely person might call out

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

I went out and interviewed dozens of people who had a friendship like ours, and I wrote a book about them. And the kinds of friends that I spoke to,

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

and sometimes it comes from the inside. A woman wrote to me about her friend who she considers her person. She spent so much time with her friend's kids

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

Author and activist Susan McPherson wrote a book called "The Lost Art of Connecting." In it, she says, we are much more interconnected than we realize,

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

and I love them so much, I wrote a book highlighting 75 of my favorites. We will cover them all -- I wish.

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

I think about this a lot. I'm a labor journalist, and I wrote a book called "The Good Enough Job," in which I spoke to over 100 people

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

And it really touches something inside me that no scripture can ever reach. When your mind is silent, wrote Thomas Merton, who, as a monk lived on closest terms with silence for 27 years,

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

which has caused me to have to recalibrate my whole relationship with this work. And the peculiar thing is that I recently wrote this book, this memoir called "Eat, Pray, Love"

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

think of when it comes to physical fitness. >> So, Bonnie, you wrote the book on muscle and I'm curious what writing and

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

meaning would become one of the defining books of the century as Frankel wrote you do not have to suffer to learn

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has been relying on her daily for many hours. So one day he wrote to Maite's product team. "Maite is the only one from the entire office who truly gets me.

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

We had two amazing children. I wrote a book about my journey, "Chasing My Cure," which is being turned into a film,

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

his early life in a memoir called the confessions Augustine in effect wrote the first autobiography his conversion was more than just a

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Well, he really should know better. You know, Upton Sinclair wrote in my country, years ago,

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

they have reason to believe were trained on their work. The freelance platform Upwork wrote a white paper in which they looked at the effects, that they've seen on the job market,

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

So if you are an advocate for unlicensed AI training, just remember that the people who wrote the music that you are listening to and the books you’re reading

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

When people rely on AI to write for them, they remember less of what they wrote. And when they read AI-generated summaries,

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

My dad, who was always the one to see people's gifts instead of their limits, wrote a letter back to Mr. Jensen. He said, "Andrea may have difficulty kicking balls,

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

beats the alternative, I wrote my dad a letter. And the theme of the letter reflected a common thread

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

I played not one, but two Division I college sports. I wrote a book. I got my PhD,

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

I was really excited about these ideas, and I wrote about them in the "New York Times." One of the people who read this article

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

any less worthwhile? Dr. Arthur Aron first wrote about these questions in this study here in 1997,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

Falling in love is the easy part. So at the end of my article, I wrote, "Love didn't happen to us. We're in love because we each made the choice to be."

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

So my daughter, a dating coach, and I wrote a book about how to choose your partner. It was an exhaustive psychological review on how to make an informed decision.

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

co-founders with me of let grow and he also wrote the anxious generation and um one of the things we say is if you want

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

where's the mom and we don't think somebody once wrote and said, "Well, so if your child is on a skateboard and

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

There's a great South African philosopher by the name of Steve Biko. He wrote an amazing book called "I Write What I Like." And in it, he says,

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

OK, now I want to ask you a few questions. So you wrote that for us, which is just an extraordinary gift that you gave to us.

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

poetry is the thing that brings me closest to wonder. I wrote my first poem when I was 10. My mother was the person who gave me my first collection of poems,

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

and my place in the universe. HW: So you wrote the most beautiful memoir, which is a totally different type of writing from poetry, obviously.

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

"Thank you for this poem," you know? And when I wrote the memoir, my editor said, "Oh, this is beautiful, but we have some notes."

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

What?" Luckily for me, when I wrote the poem for TED, you all were like, no notes. HW: No notes.

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

What we needed was a test, a way to verify that what it wrote would actually function. And so we started with a familiar tool in biology called CRISPR.

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

And I said, "Charlotte, it sounds pretty interesting to me." And so she wrote her first poem, a love poem unlike any I had ever heard before.

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

and needs a ticket if it's going to be taking up a seat? So I wrote to the Transit Authority, and I said, I really want to buy an annual card for my AI humanoid robot.

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED

This didn't go over too well. So they wrote back to me, and they said any and all requests for an annual card it has to be accompanied by registration papers of the resident.

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED

Recently, Toni Morrison wrote, "In times of dread,

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

who approached me because he saw I was interested in these things. So I wrote to him, I said I was going to give a TED talk. And like 10 minutes later, he came back with that.

The Urgent Risks of Runaway AI — and What to Do about Them | Gary Marcus | TED · TED

for 45 years, but in the evenings, he wrote nonsense for his children. And this book was one of the most famous books in America

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

One was his daughter, Laurence. She wrote this poem when she was 18 years old in 1888,

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

But if she presses undo a few times, she'll see that her student wrote code and then deleted it. She tried, she came close,

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

So, when he started writing in English, he had enough baggage. Even when he wrote in English, when you read his writings in English, you smell the same smell,

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

how these magnetic filaments connected to the magnetic pen and that's how it wrote. Or, how the oozy white stuff kept things dispersed so it could write.

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

I love my theorist colleagues -- my theorist colleagues wrote 500 papers about this little bump. (Laughter)

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

I kind of understood, this is what shame is, this is how it works. I wrote a book, I published a theory, but something was not okay -- and what it was is that, if I roughly took the people I interviewed

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

These are whole-hearted people, living from this deep sense of worthiness. So I wrote at the top of the manila folder, and I started looking at the data.

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

"Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities," St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians, "for when I am weak, then I am strong."

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

it felt real in the mind. 1982, Peter Gollwitzer wrote a whole book about this, and in 2009,

Keep your goals to yourself | Derek Sivers

163 people across four separate tests. Everyone wrote down their personal goal. Then half of them announced their commitment to this goal to the room,

Keep your goals to yourself | Derek Sivers

that my poor mother was obligated to read, I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed,

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

but stories can also repair that broken dignity. The American writer Alice Walker wrote this about her Southern relatives who had moved to the North.

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

Now during that time -- those 17 years -- I walked and I played the banjo and I painted and I wrote in my journal, and I tried to study the environment by reading books.

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

I worked for the Coastguard, was made a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador. I wrote regulations for the United States -- I mean, I wrote oil spill regulations.

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

I wrote regulations for the United States -- I mean, I wrote oil spill regulations. 20 years ago, if someone had said to me,

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

Art can change hearts and minds all the way across the world. In 1894, Russian author, Leo Tolstoy wrote "The Kingdom of God Is Within You". It's a book that advocates for nonviolence.

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

So I came back to the States and I wrote about all those issues that I mentioned before: the police brutality, the sexism, the racism.

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

So instead, I thought it would probably be a better idea if I went home and wrote. So, this is for grownups,

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