attune
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Details illuminated in the vitrines also attune viewers to connections among seemingly unrelated works among the variety of mediums Ruscha has employed over 60 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
In session, I attune to you, reflect and interpret.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
The more the community is represented in meetings, and in discussions in general, Barlet feels, the more attune the whole group is to its needs.
From The Verge ● Jul. 15, 2022
I am learning to attune my senses to subtleties.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2021
Soon the internal tumult, caused by what I had just gone through, began to subside, and my spirits rose attune to the glories of the afternoon.
From My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia by Robert Watson
But as the book went on I realized it wasn’t really written for readers like me, but rather for those whose culture attunes them to the idea that death is a porous border.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
“Escape from Alcatraz,” like “A Man Escaped,” opens with a period title card and the arrival of a prisoner, and it quickly attunes viewers to the sound of footsteps and shackles.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2020
Understanding, anticipating, and responding to change is at the heart of science fiction—envisioning ourselves amid the strange and the fantastic attunes us to the unexpected and helps us chart a course to a better future.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2020
Before long, the algorithm can detect a “p” sound across multiple languages, and exposure to those languages further attunes its senses.
From Time ● Mar. 24, 2015
God is harmony; the devotee who attunes himself will never perform any action amiss.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
They are more attuned to financial and other feasibilities, which gives them a clearer road map to success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
BRQ: Gabi is very attuned to what she likes, and what she wants to look like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
They can be highly attuned to changes in other people's behaviour.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
At the same time, he remains attuned to the political calendar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Ever attuned to the ebb and flow of research funding, he recognized that the government stood to become as generous a financial backer as the medical foundations he had mined to build the sixty-inch.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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For centuries the finest medical minds harped on attuning a balance among the four humors—sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic—in tender young constitutions by adjusting the proportions of hot-cold and moist-dry elements in the diet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Goodman is credited with attuning it to New Age sensibilities and turning astrology from a niche interest into a pop-culture juggernaut.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
My attention span is so bad lately that it really is just me closing my eyes and composing emails that I’ll forget to send rather than attuning to some higher power.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
She was an artist not just adept at expressing her own vulnerabilities, but attuning to those of her listeners.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025
He came upon Miss Lady at last in the twilight on the big gallery, when the birds were chirping all about and the insects were attuning their nightly orchestra.
From The Law of the Land by Emerson Hough
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