How to pronounce “this was” in English

This was the destination for the vast majority of people.

This was a particularly difficult moment because I was standing next to the wall that had collapsed over a bedroom, where I said goodbye to one of my best friends about a year earlier.

This was a house where my son spent most weekends during high school with a bunch of his buddies.

This was my home studio where I'd lost everything personally and professionally from pretty much my entire life.

This was a place that was very special to us.

This was years ago.

This was a moment that my team had prepared for.

This was a turning point for me.

This was a stroll, they were walking at two miles an hour.

This was silk.

This was continental scale.

This was not the attacker.

This was just another legitimate signal in the L band that had been interfered with.

- This was surprising because at the time a compound was thought to be just the atoms that made it up and nothing more.

- This was new and nobody done this before.

This was the first universal credit card.

This was a time of freedom.

This was the second problem that Tatu had to solve.

This was an almost impossible feat.

This was Edgerton's strobe.

This was the light that was used to make all of the most advanced chips right until around 2015.

This was the motivation for coming up with Einstein's general relativity, which is local.

This was radically new.

This was actually the beginning of Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle, which says that there's a limit to how precisely we can know certain pairs

This was nothing out of the ordinary.

This was a peaceful city, and although Japan as a country is no stranger to earthquakes, Kobe hadn't suffered a major quake for centuries.

This was very early on in the research on confidence assessment, but we didn't really know what we would find.

This was the start of Operation Ranch Hand.

This was the landmark paper on glyphosate safety, which concluded that Roundup herbicide does not pose a health risk to humans.

This was going to destroy them.

This was the missing piece.

This was the culmination of the top secret Manhattan Project, a three-year long effort by some of the smartest people alive,

- This was the closest anyone had gotten to solving the problem.

This was in the surrounding communities' public wells, right?

This was just the start of the uproar caused by the axiom.

This was then exposed to x-rays to get a diffraction pattern, and then scientists would work backwards to try to figure out what shape

This was the beginning of Hassabis' longstanding goal of using AI to advance science.

This was his lens.

This was known as a transmission electron microscope or TEM.

This was called the field ion microscope, and it worked by shooting helium or neon atoms at an atomically sharp needle tip.

This was much faster than other adhesives available in the 1950s.

This was built for the chief financial officer who doesn't know anything about medicine and blah blah, or the companies are stupid or whatever.

This was back in 2011 and I'm mentally going through this hotel placing the images.

This was wonderful.

This was the first time that I taught it in the modern era.

This was the most extreme that I've seen.

This was a time when a lot of doctors were experimenting with a lot of anesthetics, and maybe cocaine was the most effective of those.

This was her favorite thing.

This was very controversial because all her friends were like, why would you do that?