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attune

[uh-toon, uh-tyoon] / əˈtun, əˈtjun /


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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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2018

Reads a page of Dickens and a poem or two to attune herself for work.

From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Kate Sanborn

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

The receptive condition of the patient, as he is expecting and opening himself up to your psychic force, attunes him to receive your vibrations whenever you may send them.

From The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath by William Walker Atkinson

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

The good ones are attuned to what motivates people on their teams and who works well with whom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

They are more attuned to financial and other feasibilities, which gives them a clearer road map to success.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

He had been attuned to a shared tension, a communal apprehension beyond the routine facts of their bondage.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

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

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

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025

How often, no doubt, had he paced along the avenue, attuning his meditations to sighs and gentle murmurs, and deep and solemn peals of the wind among the leafy tops of the trees!...

From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by John T. (John Thomson) Faris




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