tune
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Every seven years, millions would tune in for updates on the cast's lives.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Selznick had tried and failed to get a money-making tune for his previous Hitchcock film, “Spellbound,” and he was determined to succeed this time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
EVs displaced China’s oil consumption to the tune of 1.5 million barrels a day in the second quarter, according to the International Energy Agency—1.5% of global demand, roughly France’s share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Manchester City have completed their squad overhaul - including a fully revamped midfield - to the tune of £458m, a new Premier League record for a summer window.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
I began to walk, humming softly, and maybe it was the rhythmic movement, or my off-key tune, but the baby seemed to relax.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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Webb eschews the Wagnerian method of film scoring—dark motifs for the evil characters, bright tunes for the good ones—in favor of fluid, shifting psychological music, a forerunner of Hitchcock’s scores with Bernard Herrmann.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Soothe your inner child with some nostalgic tunes: When Rebecca Knight became a parent, she vowed that her kids wouldn’t listen to Raffi.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
Parton once estimated that she composed or collaborated on more than 3000 tunes in her lifetime, recording some 450 of them.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Another of her tunes, Jolene - which finds her pleading with a stunning rival not to steal her man - re-entered the chart at number nine on Friday.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
She loves to belt out tunes by the Beatles or the Carpenters.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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Mitch frantically tuned in on his iPad and tried to contain his excitement as his brother had an outstanding debut, nearly leading the Chargers to victory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
As a result, far fewer viewers are leaving their sets tuned to CBS after switching off for the night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Wall Street was especially tuned to this inflation report because Fed officials signaled they were watching it more closely too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
That indicates that the person is not particularly tuned in to the proper spelling of the word, or that they didn't do a close edit of what they wrote, Eggington explains.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Keys that avoid the wolf fifth sound just fine on instruments that are tuned this way, but keys in which the wolf fifth is often heard become a problem.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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For Dr Bate, "the most important part is tuning in to how you feel".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
When AFP visited Shenqu in July, rows upon rows of finished guitars sat neatly on racks, awaiting final tuning checks before shipment.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
"The strain-dependent nature suggests that we may be able to use lattice strain as a tuning knob to induce or control altermagnetism," Zhang said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Unfortunately for Carville and his ilk, that’s exactly why so many young progressives were tuning in to his stream in the first place.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
This sameness is a result of equal-tempered tuning, however; other tuning systems have been used which cause enharmonic notes to be tuned slightly differently.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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