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attune

[uh-toon, uh-tyoon] / əˈtun, əˈtjun /


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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

But if you attune yourself to the rhythms of his sentences, you’ll find that something divine and delicate will emerge.

From Seattle Times Jan. 11, 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

“Put thy heart in attune with the weather, lest thee infects the general with thy megrims.”

From Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison

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

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

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

Mr. Lee is particularly attuned to character building.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Rather, it is about becoming attuned to their characteristics and developing a gut feeling.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

In 2010, scholars were becoming attuned to something known as the “invisible primary.”

From Salon Jul. 10, 2026

His perspective was attuned not just to Algerians, but to include the Afro-Americans and all others anywhere who were oppressed.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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 divine remedy is self-sacrifice, self-detachment, and the attuning of the soul by the laws of the ideal world, the perfect state of society.

From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger




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