attune

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

The audience sat in bleachers for the opening spectacle of immigrant Arrivals coming to Sweet Land, greeted and fed by native Hosts attempting to attune the newcomers to the spiritual needs of nature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2020

Then when the singer’s thoughts have drifted into some dark miasma, the sensitive instrument cannot attune itself in those dreamy poisonous vapours, and the delicate string loses its perfect harmony.

From An I.D.B. in South Africa by Louise Vescelius-Sheldon

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

As when the months are clad in flowery green, Sad Philomel, in bowery shades unseen, To vernal airs attunes her varied strains; And Itylus sounds warbling o'er the plains; Young Itylus, his parents' darling joy!

From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope

Because, Bruschi said, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa seemed much more attuned to McDaniel’s offense when the two teamed up for the Miami Dolphins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Regardless of whether the learning is in or out of the classroom, our minds are attuned to learning in different ways.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

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

With each step, she’d fallen into a cadence, a steady drumming rhythm that began in her feet and worked its way up her ribs until her heartbeat attuned to it.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

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

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

The world of boyhood has little understanding or sympathy for a soul like Paul's; a soul woven of dreams and harmonies which knows no means of attuning itself to the material.

From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck