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
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
Once again she felt the gypsy call of things beyond; once again she vibrated attune to the mystic song of the dark.
From The Web of the Golden Spider by Harrison Fisher
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
Some grandparents are very attuned to the potential for mismatched expectations.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 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
The meow, as cute and attuned as it may be to get a human’s attention, is not in his mind a tool for manipulation, as some have proffered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
We do this because, like vervets, we are a lot more attuned to personal cues than contextual cues.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
It strikes us as hardly a fanciful supposition that many prayers fail to obtain an answer for a precisely analogous reason, i.e., for lack of attuning.
From Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive by Joseph Warschauer
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