tune out
Example Sentences
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Profiting from an anomaly requires investors who can tune out Wall Street too, though—not just CEOs.
The lights will be bright, a target will be on their back as the best program in the country, but they will tune out the noise by focusing on their work.
From Los Angeles Times
I think people will find this increasing speculation of real versus fake to be tiresome and begin to tune out.
From Barron's
I’m of course referring to climate change, a topic embedded with some sort of Pavlovian trigger that immediately gets most people to tune out as soon as it is mentioned.
From Salon
I can understand why people tune out the litany of bad news about the planet.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
