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tune

[toon, tyoon] / tun, tjun /




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The tune of “Famous Last Words” reverberates throughout the Immanuel Presbyterian Church, a high-ceiling Gothic structure in Koreatown, on a rainy October morning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

"For engineering any type of tissue, it's known that these are knobs you can tune," Raman says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

If the internet goes down and your mobile device is bricked, you could always fire up your ride and tune into AM for instructions and updates.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

He lays back, then builds momentum through repeated upper-register notes and midrange-thrums, and finally tugs at the Afro-Latin figures tucked within the tune.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

When the ensemble resumed with a light jazzy tune, Miss Adams began to turn the girls out.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Yet this week Sloan will release her latest album as a singer-songwriter — and it’s pretty great, with knowing, incisive tunes about her marriage and about the record business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

The tunes are skeletal but pack a punch, especially when the singers push their rough-hewn vocals to dramatic peaks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Friends Phoebe Constanta and Ella Birkwood, second-year students at Nottingham Trent University, are among those trying the new night that combines pumping iron with pumping tunes.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

I'll find tunes I wouldn't have discovered otherwise.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

All the way to wherever we’re going the girls belt out pop tunes and blow at my face or stick their fingers in my ears.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

Stewart first became “Daily Show” host in 1999, and tuned the satirical news program into an important voice in the national discourse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Despite the early hour in Japan, thousands of people tuned into the live stream, posting messages of encouragement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

For Blow, creating his own engine in this language meant he could build something "tuned and authored very specifically" to what he wanted to make.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Since Singapore joined F1’s schedule in 2008, the brains behind the finely tuned machines at the likes of Ferrari and McLaren have brought that same optimization to jet lag.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

She sat alert, her body tuned to that gentle pull on the tiller.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

Scots simply aren't tuning in in the numbers to make it cost-effective.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

As his phone overheated in North Carolina, he decided that instead of tuning out the noise, he would jump cleats-first into the comments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Beyond the broadcast networks, the wider media ecosystem is tuning him out.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

Acting somewhat like a microscopic tuning fork, the resonator can vibrate for two milliseconds.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Presently her half-vision began to show her the pale forms that Mary was seeing in her dreams, and she adjusted her mind to resonate with them, as if she were tuning a string.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman


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