How to pronounce “precipice” in English

Fast forward eight years, and that stem-cell research is at work right here at Harvard, and really the researchers at Harvardare on the precipice of ultimately curing type I diabetes as a result of stem-cell research.And I am 100% confident we're going to see that in her lifetime.

And so that was my favorite piece at the time.Do you think we're on the precipice of things changing?

And she sat with me.We are also kind of on the precipice right now of a historical election taking place amidst a pandemic.

For a long time, obviously, we were subsistence farmers, and then we've had several industrial revolutions over time.We are now on the precipice of the fourth Industrial Revolution.Pretty significant impact on our workforce, our global workforce.

And I don't know-- I would dare to say that billions of people around the globe were able to pay attention.We are truly on the precipice of a significant time.

In Dakar, I'm working with the World Bank to kind of put their infrastructure directly in the continent and not just have it in America,but we are at-- the precipice has already seen that it's really radical going to change.

And I think he was right.We are on the edge of a precipice all of time.And when we don't do these things it's because we've not been pushed hard enough or we've been blessed by a certain capacity

Just a little over 10 years ago, 2001, the US had a large surplus.Each time we looked over the precipice and we said "That's not the direction we wanna go." The Gilded Age was followed by the Progressive era.

So in essence, we find what we choose to look for.And when we navigate our lives on the precipice of a smile, instead of being frustrated by the tissue throwing, being a little bit delighted by it and sharing it with someone,then it changes the way we interact with the world and it changes the way that people interact back.

I had to slip that in in case you forgot I was Catholic.Scientists are telling us that we're standing on a precipice, and we have to convert the global economy and make it emissionless.

when I look back on it, has been so filled with blessings and that's what I have to sayas I know I'm on death's precipice, as I know I'm going into what Dylan Thomas called 'that good night of death.'" And I thought whether you believe in blessings or not, if you cansay that toward the end, then you're saying a lot. You're saying an immense and abundant sense of what life can mean and what life ought to mean. And so, the realization that,

You said, and I just talked about it.And I think a lot of us are kind of staring at the precipice of saying, do I want to talk about this?And you made that leap.

and had those great results.But now there's such an amazing community around the gaming industry, just on the simple precipice that it's no longer taboo.

when the jet stream diverts from the peak and you get this tiny little moment of lighter, I should say, winds.So strangely, you try to get sort of used to this feeling of crossing across this precipice.

So we should feel pity for the tragic hero, who has ruined his or her life.And we should feel fear for ourselves, how close we come to the precipice.All of that is available.

like I couldn't believe Congress took so long to act twice when we're on the precipice.

And the wings are the self confidence you have, that when you're in whatever precipice in your life, that you feel like I have the ability to jump off and fly and face

But what happened is-- imagine now that one of these banks is so enormous, or the precipice is so steep and the ground is so treacherous, that

Just a little over 10 years ago, 2001, the US had a large surplus.If you look around the world, there are some other countries that have looked over the precipice and said, "We don't wanna go there.

We live in a time when a lot of people are concerned that we're teetering on the precipice

Congress nothing good would have come of it uh we certainly would have gone over the precipice in terms of these

I think world-changing is a really interesting phrase because I feel find that to be quite true that the world is um at precipice of quite a significant

Saudis dead. For what? For for for something that was already on the precipice of dying

But at that time, I was at, basically, one of those precipice moments where, on the left was residency and something guaranteed and something

In Dakar, I'm working with the World Bank to kind of put their infrastructure directly in the continent and not just have it in America,The sort of things that are happening right now is that with elevators, for instance, we're on the precipice for the first time of elevators that

you look at um what's happening in America right now it's it's it's really interesting um we're on the precipice of

I had to slip that in in case you forgot I was Catholic.A speeding train with no brakes, some kind of a death wish, a scientific consensus that we're standing on a precipice and a population

But we all know if you're not always tapping in and getting into that adjacent possible-- if you're not always living on that precipice that we keep talking about,

And as so often happens in the news, the news takes us to an interesting place and then doesn't capitalize.And one of its mainstays, which is tragic news, is on the precipice, on the edge of something very interesting.

Stephen Merchant: Well it's interesting cause he, I remember reading a quote with him once where he said, "the thing with standup is you sort of walk to the edge of the precipice

run on Tesla's AC current. Nikola Tesla was an incredible super-genius whose intellect placed him dangerously on the precipice between great scientific mind

and a lot about the stuff that I was reading, a lot of books that I was reading was that it always felt like everything was on the precipice

So let's go on is like this president, who about 10 years ago, speaking about his country, he said, five years ago, we were at the edge of the precipice.