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tune

[toon, tyoon] / tun, tjun /




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‘If you’re only talking about making it easier to buy a home, young people are going to tune you out.’

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

The secret to writing a TV theme tune.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Their tiny pores and adjustable structures allow scientists to fine tune their properties for different applications.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

This step is what brought us here, to Ponysaurus, filling out the online notice to the tune of a hissing compressor that kept clean air moving through the brewing system.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Jonah didn’t want to admit how hard he’d been working to tune out everything Katherine had tried to tell him.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Politicians who once championed the AI infrastructure build-out have changed their tunes right as companies are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into ramping up computing capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

This conversation, which took place in a backstage trailer vibrating from the country and hip-hop tunes emanating from nearby stages, has been edited for length and clarity.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

We turned the tunes on full blast, and neither of us had laughed that hard in years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

That material and the five other previously unheard tunes, as well as demos and remastered songs, form part of a new, posthumous album called The Shel Talmy Recordings.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Three or four Ayorthaians at a time occupy the stage in turn and sing long, sad ballads or happy tunes or funny ones, joined by the whole throng in the choruses.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

"The ocean is an acoustic environment, and sharks are clearly tuned into it in ways we are only beginning to understand," Kajiura said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Episodes are chopped up into two-minute dopamine hits, with endless cliff-hangers and plot twists to keep viewers tuned in.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

But for players not on international duty, three weeks is a long time for finely tuned athletes not to play competitively.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Stay tuned for a bigger piece on the Health app and the watch’s upcoming AI features, which include the always-listening Siri Recap, Live Rewind and Sound Recognition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

There he lived, and watched the western sky often, and kept his wizard’s ear tuned for the sound of scaly wings.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

Along with other countries like Canada and Australia, Porchfests have been tuning up in more locations across the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

It’s an idea that simply to get through the day we are playing a role of sorts, tuning our conversations to please others, or presenting exaggerated, false or tidied-up versions of ourselves on social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

It should also be noted that some music traditions around the world do not use the type of precision tunings described above, not because they can't, but because of an aesthetic preference for wide tuning.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones




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