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tune up

[toon-uhp, tyoon-] / ˈtunˌʌp, ˈtjun- /


NOUN
warmup
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Only three of the top 10 players participated in the Queen’s Club tune up tournament in London, compared to six playing last week in Berlin in a contest of similar scale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

The opportunity to tune up under lights will be largely passed in the name of unity and morale.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

Flutes and drums tune up as spectators begin to line the curbs and balconies along the street.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

"We're nearing a point where we can use these maps to design therapies that can tune up the T cell function for cancer treatments or tune it down to treat autoimmune disease."

From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023

Gracious God, say Squeak, how I’m gonna tune up my mouth to say all that?

From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker




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