
answering machine
answering machine
/ˈænsɚɹɪŋ məʃˈiːn/
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to attach
to attach
/əˈtætʃ/
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A post with handles for the rider to hold is attached to the front of the platform.
A wide rubber wheel is attached to each side of the platform.
A wire attached the device to a disc that was inserted into the ear.
blogger
blogger
/ˈbɫɔɡɝ/
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I found a lot of posts from deaf bloggers, and ended up following a bunch of them.
I do not consider myself a makeup vlogger or blogger at all anymore.
[Narrator] Tokyo based video-blogger, Hikosaemon visited the Pyongyang restaurant in Dalian, China.
communication
communication
/kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃən/
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It was lack of communication from him.
It has helped world transportation and communication to develop.
And everything is going well with communication.
connection
connection
/kəˈnɛkʃən/
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Some researchers have inferred that faulty connections between areas of the brain may be responsible for autism.
Or perhaps there are too many connections.
When genetic changes involve connections in the brain, autism can occur.
podcast
podcast
/ˈpɔdˌkæst/
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Hello there, so let's talk about podcasts.
So recently, I've been involved in two podcasts.
It's a question David Chang asked in his podcast last year.
search engine
search engine
/sˈɜːtʃ ˈɛndʒɪn/
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Google: A Brief History If you type into Google's search engine the question "How does Google work?"s
The obvious superiority of their search engine quickly attracted financial backing.
Just type “goog” into Google's search engine to see how its stock is doing.
to surf
to surf
/ˈsɝf/
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I'm surfing through channels... "Holy crap, there it is on the list!
I was like, "There's this man out there surfing.
Every time I get a chance to come back and surf, like, I just love to.
voicemail
voicemail
/ˈvɔɪsˌmeɪɫ/
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Are you just a crackhead who can't afford to pay your bill and it just goes to your voicemail?
No one's there and no one's checking voicemails or anything.
He once left his neighbors a voicemail threatening to kill their entire family.
attachment
attachment
/əˈtætʃmənt/
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These spines probably served as attachment points for the powerful muscles that held up the creatures’ giant heads.
This discovery that attachment wasn’t just about getting breakfast surprised a lot of people.
And loving touch and care are tremendously important, but familiarity is also key to attachment.
to delete
to delete
/dɪˈɫit/
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And I've deleted everyone.
but she deleted her original defense, screenshots.
I'll delete the comments.
hate mail
hate mail
/hˈeɪt mˈeɪl/
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He used to write hate mail to the president?
I found a stack of hate mail people wrote to Cantor.
Eat s***, racist hate mail.
operator
operator
/ˈɑpɝˌeɪtɝ/
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That means that during emergencies, the plant will cool and stabilize itself without an operator present.
He heard nothing for a few seconds and then the operator said. '
the operator said. '
dialect
dialect
/ˈdaɪəˌɫɛkt/
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You can't change a specific language or dialect.
The first village and second village have different dialects, but good mutual intelligibility.
This tendency for language to change gradually along a gradient is known as a dialect chain or dialect continuum.
fluency
fluency
/ˈfɫuənsi/
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" I was never expecting fast fluency.
I mean, it could be cultural fluency.
And their epistemology allows them different access, different gestures of fluency.
accuracy
accuracy
/ˈækjɝəsi/
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I think they've done a really good job of making adjustments to actually improve the accuracy since May.
But the accuracy of contactless thermometers has been called into question.
And I think there's only beneficial things that can happen once you get to this level of accuracy.
language barrier
language barrier
/lˈæŋɡwɪdʒ bˈæɹɪɚ/
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What really resonated with me is the fact that people seem to misunderstand people's motives due to language barriers.
One of the first things that Singapore’s leaders did was to break down the language barrier between ethnic groups.
- There's a little bit less communication happening because of the language barrier, sure.
mother tongue
mother tongue
/mˈʌðɚ tˈʌŋ/
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People in Singapore are required to take English as a first language as well as a mother tongue language.
Well this depends on your mother tongue.
It’s interesting that we say ‘mother tongue’, isn’t it?
native speaker
native speaker
/nˈeɪɾɪv spˈiːkɚ/
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And it now has its first native speaker-- Jessie Little Doe's daughter, who's a native speaker of Wampanoag.
They conducted the same labeling test on over 2,600 native speakers of 110 unwritten languages from nonindustrialized societies.
It's called the intuition of the native speaker.
pronunciation
pronunciation
/pɹəˌnənsiˈeɪʃən/, /pɹoʊˌnənsiˈeɪʃən/
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There might be other pronunciations.
Why is it harder for me to say now when I'm trying to read the actual pronunciation? "
I really want to say that the pronunciation of this is 'pro-teen'
sign language
sign language
/sˈaɪn lˈæŋɡwɪdʒ/
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So my friend Christina was talking about how, like, they don't even talk about sign language users.
But sign language, you can see from far away!
But yeah, start learning your sign language vocabulary for consent and otherwise.
incoherent
incoherent
/ˌɪnkoʊˈhɪɹənt/
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QAnon will always be an incoherent mess of nonsense.
he makes incoherent noises.
Now this time when he was speaking he became more and more incoherent as he was talking.
to clarify
to clarify
/ˈkɫɛɹəˌfaɪ/
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Now, just to clarify, that game was not a teaching game.
To clarify, I don’t dislike them.
Well, just want to clarify, my name is Outlook now.
to comprehend
to comprehend
/ˌkɑmpɹiˈhɛnd/
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It's hard to comprehend why it's so expensive and if there's even a market for it.
Our brains can't comprehend these concepts.
These clichés, he explains, “cover up and neutralize experiences beyond our ability to comprehend.
to converse
to converse
/ˈkɑnvɝs/, /kənˈvɝs/
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Or converse with them personally.
I was still working and only paused several times to converse in writing.
So we were able to do Auslan and converse in Auslan and do some sign language
to explain
to explain
/ɪksˈpɫeɪn/
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They learned that head bumps could not explain how people behaved.
This may explain how prodigies can focus on a task, solve complex problems, and learn quickly.
No one could explain how the things got there. '
to express
to express
/ɪksˈpɹɛs/
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Although she could hardly speak, she had recently managed to express a wish to see me.
It's much easier for me to express my thoughts, especially in a video.
So his meeting with the President is designed to express Saudi policy towards Iran.
to illustrate
to illustrate
/ˈɪɫəˌstɹeɪt/
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It illustrates what one tenth of a second's difference can mean in competition.
Like in this promotional film from 1930 that illustrates how tear gas can be used to thwart bank robbers.
This image taken from a telescope in Chile in November 2019 illustrates the problem.
to indicate
to indicate
/ˈɪndəˌkeɪt/
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The acute medical therapy is indicated in the exposure.
A survey indicates that most mothers have two top priorities: 1.
Yet the English-language novels of Joseph Conrad indicate that it is not impossible.
tweet
tweet
/ˈtwit/
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My friend Franchesca actually made a really good point on Twitter and his tweet says, "
They have a lot of tweets now.
Actually, there is a tweet that I liked.

telephone banking
telephone banking
/tˈɛlɪfˌoʊn bˈæŋkɪŋ/
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