How native speakers pronounce “yeah”

would you shave your head on stream?" And I said, “Yeah, duh.” Because who wouldn't do that?

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because we talked to the little boy afterward and said, "You OK with that?" They said, "Yeah, why? Was that wrong?" They just switched.

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you probably even know people who take them. And so you're thinking, "Yeah! Give me the statin." But there's a question you should ask at this point,

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I asked him if he worked in the airport and he said, "Yeah, sort of." He said he

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and one of my students who's a very heavy TikTok user, she said, "Yeah, I take out a book,

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And then the mom says, "Were you nervous?" And he says, "Yeah. My legs are still

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(Laughter) Yeah, huh? (Laughter)

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And it gave me data-driven courage that, yeah, we can do this together. I happened to marry a superhero, too.

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And he was like, "Oh" -- yeah, this is how he looked, his name is Eric -- and he was like, "I'm not sure."

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Then I ask him, "Is that weird?" He's like, "Yeah, it's really weird, man." But as soon as he said that, his whole demeanor changed.

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It's as if he's putting all the doubt on the floor. And he said, "Yeah, you can do this, just don't get too weird."

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So a lot of people would look at that -- Thank you, yeah. You keep those as souvenirs, actually.

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and may rightly say, that yeah, Kevin, that's great, but you're not talking about a bird's wing.

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But if we could play the video. (Video) Yeah, yeah. Start the ride. Yeah, yeah.

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(Video) Yeah, yeah. Start the ride. Yeah, yeah. Son 1: Alright, here we go.

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(Laughter) TM: Yeah, I mean, you know, I think what you're saying is how comfortable are humans

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

it actually demonstrates what superhuman performance is. SK: Yeah, I couldn't agree more. I actually do assume most of the people I know

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It's already cost competitive with a typical rideshare drive. TM: Yeah, I think, you know, right now for us, we're the only company operating at this scale.

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but it isn't actually level four autonomy. SK: Yeah, yeah. I mean, if you extrapolate all of this,

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are parking lots going to turn into parks -- what’s going to happen? TM: Yeah, we’ve partnered, from the early days, with transit. We think it's a really interesting way

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What happens? TM: Yeah, I think, you know, I'll answer the question in a few ways. My uncle was actually a truck driver too,

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(Video) Paris ASMR: I’ve brought some tasty tea from Paris. For you, yeah. It is called, “Weekend à Paris.”

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I think that for a lot of us, it happens around the time we hit puberty. And you know -- yeah, I know. So during puberty, our bodies are changing,

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I didn't build voice in there. I added support for images, yeah, but even that took hours. So I was looking at the typing indicator,

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those moments where you need to break in and say, "Yeah, for the last 20 minutes, I actually have no idea what you were talking about.

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in all of our lives? MF: Yeah, yeah. Well, first of all, I'll take a step back and say, like, clearly,

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and how does this really impact the way that we actually approach it? MF: Yeah, so I'm reading all the research on friendship, and what sort of materializes before my eyes

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as you did when you were kids? MF: Yeah. So when I say friendship doesn't happen organically in adulthood,

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Can you explain a little bit about that? MF: Yeah. So Harry Stack Sullivan, he's a psychiatrist, and he has this theory called the “theory of chums,”

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How important is in-person connection or getting together in real life?" MF: Yeah, so this is such a nuanced question in some ways, right? Because it's such a "both/and."

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and how can we all strive to be super friends? MF: Yeah, secure friends, aka super friends. These people are secure with themselves,

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Some people do this exercise and find, yeah, I'm going to step back. But others do it and realize it's just the thing they needed

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about our most favorite topic, the weather. You could just say what they're expecting, which is, "Yeah, it's pretty cold." Or you can answer a bit more expansively.

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or something else?” EN: Yeah, ask a medical professional for sure. And there's a lot of overlap between burnout and lots of other experiences,

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for you to yell about whatever the problems you feel at that moment and just be on your side and go, "Yeah! I can't believe that happened to you! I'm so on your side," for 15 minutes.

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Who has experienced a lot of stress? Yeah. Me too. But that is not my confession.

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and it's spreading to more than 100 schools across the country. Yeah. (Applause)

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so long as you believe that you can handle it, in some sense? KM: Yeah, and one thing we know for certain is that chasing meaning is better for your health

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You saved my life." Now, for a book about how to clean, that's sort of odd, yeah? (Laughter)

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"Lazy." Yeah, that stung. But I must be a glutton for punishment

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>> It's an energy transfer. Yeah, Bonnie. >> Watching Bonnie surf so

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rebuilds stronger. >> Yeah. Yeah.

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All right, let's turn around and paddle straight in as hard as you can. Yeah. Muscles matter.

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ourselves, and how we feel. >> Yeah, baby. >> What should people do to put

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Now who recognizes what that is? Yeah, excellent. But it's going to be way easier,

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(Laughter) Yeah. You see? It's very relevant.

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Now for all of them, you know what? Yeah, humans were still ahead, but AI is closing the gap.

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my kids were too young to reach it she said yeah that's how my dad would send me a signal that he was okay

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I think that's the fun part. Yeah, that's pretty crazy.

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Most people that I knew did that. BS: It was visceral, yeah. ES: This was two years ago.

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I would basically answer the question, yeah, I am going to live a good life. In fact, maybe she's right, I will change millions of lives.

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So, you know, these things, some of you have them, you're like, yeah, I've got some of those, too. These are things like all-or-nothing thinking,

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

across dimensions of life. So yeah, public speaker obviously bad, but what about at work? Husband? Not good enough.

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

being directed by the great Sidney Poitier. Oh, yeah, you can clap that. (Applause)

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(Laughter) And I don't mean -- yeah, it's OK. You feel me, thank you.

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We've got to act like we believe in ourselves. Oh, yeah. Because when we believe in ourselves and act on it,

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Will you give one to Monkey? Toddler: Yeah. Researcher: Yeah? Toddler: Yeah.

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Toddler: Yeah. Researcher: Yeah? Toddler: Yeah. Here.

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

Here's what happened next. (Video) ED: Yes. Yeah! Kid: I'm gonna try.

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

It's linking into the core intelligences that your overall model has. SA: Yeah, the new image generation model is part of GPT-4o, so it's got all of the intelligence in there.

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Or are you actually like, isn't this in some ways life-threatening to the notion that, yeah, by going to massive scale, tens of billions of dollars of investment,

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That might be coming sooner than we think. SA: I don't think it will happen exactly like that, but yeah, I think something in the direction where AI --

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SA: Superconductors? CA: Superconducting, yeah. Is that possible?

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what would have taken them two years. SA: Yeah, it's like mind -- it really like, that’s been one of my big “feel the AGI” moments.

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do you check for that internally before release? SA: Of course, yeah. So we have this preparedness framework

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to shut things down quickly if we see a danger. SA: Yeah, no, of course, of course that's important. You don't, like, wake up one day and say,

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and that we cannot put out something that could go beyond this? SA: Yeah, so this is the purpose of our preparedness framework. And we'll update that over time.

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should be really paying attention to from Vladimir Putin and from Russia yeah Helen you and I first talked about this

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do you think we should be watching for yeah Helen that's pretty much what it means uh it means that the efforts at

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not his love handles. Yeah, a classic and genuine misunderstanding. And lucky we both have good humor,

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Maybe it's even you. Yeah, exactly. Now in my research with intercultural couples,

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"Hey, I had a great fight the other day." "Oh, yeah. My partner and I fight all the time and we're super happy."

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"I did too pay the bills!" Or we counterattack, “Oh, yeah? Well, you didn’t pay the bills on time.” John: The fourth Horseman is stonewalling.

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And and you showed what was -- CC: Yeah, and it was basically the outline of my talk. CA: It was compelling.

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we might give you like, five percent of it." CA: Yeah, so I get the anger. There is a difference between a physical object,

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And I recognized it and didn't do anything about it. SRYA: Yeah, and see, I'm the type of person who, that kind of situation, I would absolutely say something.

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instead of let the disaster happen and then just look back in depression. SRYA: Yeah, I could see that look. And I think anxiety works both ways,

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you know, your relationship with yourself? SRYA: Yeah, I've always cared way too much what people think. I actually remember, I was writing with my grandma back in 2019,

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