attune

Enjoying solitude is said to increase creativity, help us recharge, and attune to our sense of self.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

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

What shall I send my love today     When all the woods attune to love,     And I would show the lark and dove That I can love as well as they?

From A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers by Various

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

A tiny resonance device you could carry in your belt-bag attunes itself to the natural harmonic of a structure and then increases amplitude by tiny pushes exactly in time.

From The Creature from Cleveland Depths by Leiber, Fritz

It’s an audacious wager calibrated to the ambitions of our age and attuned to the capital behind it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

But that’s not necessarily the best value—it’s in companies trading on local exchanges and more attuned to the country’s growth drivers, along with some multinational technology companies.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

It is disproportionately female, politically diverse within a broadly liberal frame and deeply attuned to questions of character and intent.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

When she got older, she described herself as a student of American history, attuned to the inevitable.

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

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 son of a coal miner, Mr. Lai, 64, has a reputation for being a skilled, hard-working politician who sees his humble background as attuning him to the needs of ordinary people in Taiwan.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 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 Buck, Charles Neville