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attune

[uh-toon, uh-tyoon] / əˈtun, əˈtjun /


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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

Sahm said voters are especially attune to rising gas prices but generally “there are other things consumers care far more about.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2021

That combination forces readers to attune themselves to the narrator’s dark, howling somnia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2018

It gave me too much with which to sympathize before I could attune my sympathy to criticism.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

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

Even the sound of flutes is heard round about, according to one way of translating the passage; music attunes the everlasting festival.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider

Investors should remain on their toes and always attuned to near-term risks to their specific portfolio holdings.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Conversations like this reminded me that people with little power are often attuned to the differences between what they hear from authorities and what they know in their guts.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

He's bounced back from challenging situations in his football past and you almost become attuned to him doing so again, but there is a lot to fix here.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

BRQ: Gabi is very attuned to what she likes, and what she wants to look like.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

And I was somehow attuned to it all, could feel it physically.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

This could also be an opportunity for them to perform the “love exercise” of having grace and compassion for you, and attuning to your needs more deeply.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

She was an artist not just adept at expressing her own vulnerabilities, but attuning to those of her listeners.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025

The Buddha suggests that we work with the fundamental dissatisfaction we feel by releasing craving, and attuning to the sensory richness of the present moment.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024

While water sings, so must he, in heat or cold, calm or storm, ever attuning his voice in sure accord; low in the drought of summer and the drought of winter, but never silent.

From The Mountains of California by John Muir




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