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# How to pronounce "rather than" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ræθɛrθæn/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **ra·ther·than**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "rather than" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "To give an example, in 1958, Dr. Benjamin Spock published in his book, "Baby and Child Care," that babies should be put down to sleep on their fronts rather than their backs to prevent them from choking on their own vomit. And this book outsold every other book, except the Bible, for its 52 year print run."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piHGnG4LsmQ&t=144s)

### Example 2
> "Rather than checking all possible combinations of prime numbers by brute force, they now analyze the collective behavior of all the primes at once."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 21:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x32Zq-XvID4&t=1265s)

### Example 3
> "Rather than going through all of the development cost of building up a processor from scratch to be radiation tolerant, our finding is you get a lot better bang for your buck by just going and basically buying batches of different processors and just qualling them."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 17:21](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20vUNgRdB4o&t=1041s)

### Example 4
> "rather than using it as a reason to disengage?"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 25:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=057mnWzLBcA&t=1505s)

### Example 5
> "rather than with evaluation and judgment."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBdegZLhb6Q&t=392s)

### Example 6
> "Rather than thinking about those as admission criteria, those are contextual pieces of information."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAi733RjrYs&t=133s)

### Example 7
> "Rather than fixing people after they're injured, I learned that you could keep people from getting injured in the first place."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:17](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jJZF_-vUNc&t=77s)

### Example 8
> "rather than nothing. The something is a fundamental currency called energy. If string theory is correct, then that"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 8:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qifsxitq_q4&t=519s)

### Example 9
> "Rather than the Bitcoin."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 29:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu0xNDLNORU&t=1751s)

### Example 10
> "Rather than the now. >> No, the now. You've got to look If you're in a relationship right now, if you don't love the person as they are"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWZZ7N4jmN0&t=370s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [rather](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/rather), [than](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/than)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "rather than" correctly?
"rather than" is pronounced `/ræθɛrθæn/`. Syllable breakdown: **ra·ther·than**.

### What does "rather than" mean in context?
Refer to real speech examples in the video clips above to observe how native speakers use "rather than" in daily English.

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