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attune

[uh-toon, uh-tyoon] / əˈtun, əˈtjun /


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A new crop of artists has been able to reach the heights of Martin’s success without the need to attune its Latino identity to appease a white majority.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024

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

The chapel chimes suddenly pealed out their morning anthems, and its music tinkled sweetly across the senses of the girl whose soul was throbbing in perfect attune.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald

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

It is as important to the race as to the woman, for through it is developed that high love impulse which, conveyed to the child, attunes and perfects its being.

From Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger

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

“It was quite surreal,” Kiko Kostadinov, the reflective and deeply attuned mind behind the eponymous brand, says as he recalls his first vivid memory of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

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

But when we look at society, we can see that some silent agency is at work, slowly, but surely, attuning our life to finer issues than the Golden Ages knew.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various




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