tune
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When the pied piper loses his audience, we must ask whether the people have rediscovered their conscience or simply found a new tune to follow.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
This gives scientists a practical way to tune the properties of glass during manufacturing rather than relying entirely on the chemistry of the original ingredients.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Top will be to tune up his team's set-piece solidity and attacking fluency.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
It’s easy for voters to tune out complicated policy issues like deregulation, healthcare financing and antitrust law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
A tune similar to the one from her living room, preaching “lean on the Lord,” filled the car, this one with a creepy organ backdrop.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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From Boris Pickett’s “Monster Mash” to Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put A Spell on You” to, of course, “Thriller,” there are plenty of tunes to tap one’s toes with while trick-or-treating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Bernie Taupin has been writing the lyrics for Elton John’s tunes, global megahits among them and over 400 total, since 1967.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 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
My favorite part was the home stretch of tunes from “Music, Fashion, Film”: “Camera,” a startlingly frank confession of her movie-star aspirations; “Magic Metal Montana,” a deeply tender ode to her friend and collaborator A.G.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
After that, Lizzie always sang the hymns she knew, and Turner cut down on the high churchy tunes to accommodate her.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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It’s kind of like a lot of folks might go into a restaurant or a bar with the TV tuned to a game, but on mute.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
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
"Our study shows that atomic-scale steps can act as effective rails that guide superconducting vortices, and that this guiding effect can be tuned simply by changing the temperature or magnetic field," said Uchihashi.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
I hoped my parents were also tuned in to the launch and counting along with us—Pa and Mrs. by TV and Cecile by radio.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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A swath of disaffected progressives started tuning in to his daily marathon livestreams, where Piker riffs on the latest batch of headlines with a trademark off-the-cuff panache.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
More than 15 million people have been tuning in to this series.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Otherwise, ABC has dominated, with upwards of 10 million tuning in most weeks to the network’s prime-time game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
"This gives us a completely new tuning knob for light. By adjusting its topology, we can decide how and where chirality appears," said Dr. Nape.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Goddard sneered and tapped his blade against the huge tuning fork.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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Music - Introductory
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