tune
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Emery will expect more from both once they are in tune with his demands.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Americans who otherwise ignored the cameras in their cities have started to notice, and tune in to the capabilities of the technology around them.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
“A tune has so many people in it,” Mr. Wade observes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Roy Webb’s slithery bitonal chords and complex love theme are fully in tune with Hitchcock’s spy-romance story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Humming an upbeat tune, I got online and started to go through my latest email thread with Thomas.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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In the wine-cellar scene where Devlin discovers uranium—a substance used to build an atomic bomb—in a bottle, Hitchcock relies entirely on Latin dance tunes playing upstairs rather than a suspense cue.
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
“He will sing several of your country’s elfin tunes we are particularly fond of in this house.”
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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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
Season 2 of “Adults” makes a critic question why he wasn’t better tuned in to season 1.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
More than 17,000 people poured into Veterans Stadium for standing room only, and many more tuned into the first nationally televised high school game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 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
Mr. Reardon and Jonah’s parents were still talking, but Jonah tuned it out for a moment.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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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 set begins with a crackle and a hum on “The Outside,” as if tuning into a faint radio transmission from the other side of the world, and then Ms. Bridgers’s voice arrives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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
Of course, if there are problems with tuning, the notes will not sound good together, but this is not what consonance and dissonance are about.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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