How to pronounce “jagged” in English

layer graph. Here we have the number of -- the rate of death from colonial wars which has petered out to zero. The number of deaths from interstate wars which has followed ajagged, bumpy but yet downward trajectory with peaks corresponding to the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Iran/Iraq war. And here we have the pure civil wars and the internationalizedcivil wars. And you can see that, despite their number, the limited damage they do results in an overall trend that is bumpy but unmistakably downward. Here we are in the last few years

The inside was rusted out and filled with brown rainwater, green algae floating in its surface.Something jagged snagged Frida's throat and she swallowed it down.Here was evidence of other people.

And so you keep these staples in.It actually is very jagged, so it sticks to what you're seasoning very well.

At the museum, curators carefully unrolled its two sides and placed them in two glass frames.One side had a jagged gash and the other had a blank section about 10 feet long.Yet despite its rough condition, much of the document could still be painstakingly deciphered and translated, and it became known as the Rhind Papyrus

And when you're in the Himalayas, and you look around, and you can tell the relative age and how active a mountain range isby how jagged the skyline is-- so as we look at the pictures here in the Himalayas you'll see that it's really jaggedand everything, where you go to someplace like the Appalachia, which is one of the oldest mountain ranges on the Earth that's in the process of eroding away,

and father genomes, if you will.It's not jagged like that.

Gansevoort Plaza, where the High Line was chopped off in 1990.And it was really jagged-edged, which the design team proposed to polish it off to use as a reveal, like a section of how the High Line's built.And that's it completed.

is better at spatial things and poor at verbal and vice versa.So this jaggedness principle has lots of implications for designs of environments, right?We still design on average.

Now, you might think if the top and bottom are causing problems, just extend each landing, but that also doesn't work.You just end up with a jagged mess for longer.So how do modern escalators solve this problem?

And we've gone out of town.We did a performance of "Jagged Little Pill" that we were like-- I don't even know.

He's be on the high end on some things, in the middle on others, and then you'd be on the low end on some things.Every single pilot showed this kind of jagged profile.And so it's like, well, obviously, if you designed something right down the middle, it's going to be a bad fit for most people.

Thunk! Thunk!They finally shattered into two jagged shards, and he waved them in front of him triumphantly, trying to imitate that already-fading imageof the gladiator.

This one is more innocent.My mind was working in a very jagged way when I was-- I had just left the office, and my mind was flooded with all these ideas.And I thought it would be great if I could pull it off, to write a jagged book.

And one of the things you talk about was the concept of people who have jagged resumes.He sounded like somebody who had a jagged resume.Can you kind of explain the concept of what you think a jagged resumes and how do we look for people with interesting jagged resumes?

But you could come up right there with three flags of why this is an imperfect resume and you shouldn't bankroll someone like that.So when I talk about the jagged resume it's a way of saying loosen up some of those parameters that are soabsolute that you start to miss people who are interesting and on the edge.

They all came in as graduate students for him.All of them were people who had jagged resumés to the extreme.They had been bouncing around.

They send a lot of soldiers into strange valleys in Afghanistan and Iraq that are not well scouted where you don't know what you're going to find.But I do have a very jagged resume before Google.

to think about them.So the first one is called jaggedness.Its simplest form is this-- all human characteristics that we care about are multi-dimensional and cannot be reduced to a single score ever.

despite the fact that a majority of it might have already been destroyed by trawling.But there are certain areas where the habitat is so jagged, where people avoid trawling, that is relatively untouched.And in those areas it's this completely separate deepwater environment that rivals a shallow-water reef.

like someone stepping on fallen leaves.She froze, that jagged thing rising in her throat once more.'Hello?' she whispered. No answer.

It was a brittle, jagged sound, like broken glass.

Same with Alanis Morissette-- this is right before "Jagged Little Pill." Actually, "Jagged, Little Pill" had just come out this week, and it sold like 10 copies.

And yet, this is all we do whether its body size, or IQ, and stuff like that.So let me tell you the first time we realized this jaggedness principle.It was actually back in the 1950s.

And this is what Daniels found.Every single one of them had this kind of jaggedness to them.He's be on the high end on some things, in the middle on others, and then you'd be on the low end on some things.

So it takes out a lot of the jaggedness, the high frequency elements out of the trajectory.

Have you have you heard AJI, the Artificial Jagged Intelligence?

A subterranean mountain range, with jagged crags that no one has ever climbed.

I opened up for 112, Jagged Edge, Keyshia Cole, but like those days are behind me.

Far in the distance, stars illuminate the jagged spires and snow covered mountains.

and a lot of our guys spend a lot of time trying to pick the good ones out of the long tail.And one of the things you talk about was the concept of people who have jagged resumes.He sounded like somebody who had a jagged resume.

He sounded like somebody who had a jagged resume.Can you kind of explain the concept of what you think a jagged resumes and how do we look for people with interesting jagged resumes?George: Absolutely. This is a core idea in the book.

They send a lot of soldiers into strange valleys in Afghanistan and Iraq that are not well scouted where you don't know what you're going to find.One of the things I do with the book is put forth the concept of jagged resumes so we've got terminology.

But sometimes, even just matching of strategies against your own jaggedness matters so much, because there's always multiple strategies to accomplish an outcome.OK, so we start with jaggedness.Again, the book dives in deeper in terms of what this means for how we hire, how we assess performance, stuff like that.

At the bottom, the landing became a dangerous choke point.Under the pressure, the steps twisted and buckled into jagged metal, leaving 24 people injured.Something like this shouldn't have been possible, and experts at the time knew that something had gone wrong, and they started to suspect foul play.

But at the same time, there's something really eerie and ominous about the jagged coastline and the fog and the fact that the house really

So I was super, super lucky in that at the bottom of the cliff were just jagged rocks.

And it's represented in that sine wave look, as opposed to the jagged, incoherent type of rhythm.

and father genomes, if you will.OK? And then as a result, you get this jagged straight line frontier.

My mind was working in a very jagged way when I was-- I had just left the office, and my mind was flooded with all these ideas.And I thought it would be great if I could pull it off, to write a jagged book.So they're all comedic, but they're expressive of different feelings and moods, as well as different topics.

audience member 2: Jim: Those are the remnants of the breakwater, those jagged rocks. And actually, they create, the way that, that, the way that they are now creates more of a hazard than if it was

And so it's like, well, obviously, if you designed something right down the middle, it's going to be a bad fit for most people.But like I said, as we've expanded this looking at jaggedness to different characteristics of human beings, we've seen the same exact thing.So we could do this on character and other kind of things.

Sure. We'll go with that.But sometimes, even just matching of strategies against your own jaggedness matters so much, because there's always multiple strategies to accomplish an outcome.OK, so we start with jaggedness.

We have Laurel Harris, who is rejoining "Wicked" Broadway after just completing nine months on the road touring with "Wicked."She began her "Wicked" journey 13 years ago, playing Elphaba full time about 10 years ago on tour, and she's also acted in "Jagged Little Pill," "Beautiful,""Evita, " and "In Transit" on Broadway.

And so, thankfully, Eva is the queen of this, having done "Jagged Little Pill" and "Juliet" and had-- "Cruel Intentions." And "Cruel Intentions!"

If I concentrate hard enough, I could almost see the heat in the still air, zigzagging in jagged lines around me, mixing

It's like meeting the man of your dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife." Alanis Morissette off the album, "Jagged Little Pill,"

And getting back into the vehicle, this is a concern, because if you're breathing in that dust, it turned out it was a very sharp, jagged kind of material.

U-turn. So we are now living through a period where for the first time in history, both the frequency of wars and the amount of damage that they do per country per year, has beenin decline. If you combine these measures into an aggregate graph of total number of people killed in wars involving a great power, you get a jagged line, but one that ends ina point that is a minimum in this time series. That is, we are living in a time that has a record low number of deaths in wars involving a great power. If we now zoom in on the last