How to pronounce “ax”(verb) in English

First I would have to stop and ax myself, man.

on the aircraft carrier and that was immediately axed that was just like no. That's going to injure the plane.

for a 1.5 megabyte wave file to load good news is the agency that provided the grant was axed two years ago during

Well, I want to thank you for my job, because if we didn't have good seasons by this point, we were going to be axed in season one and two.