tune
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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
American folksongs are passed among musicians—each bringing their own style to the tune.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Manchester City have completed their squad overhaul - including a fully revamped midfield - to the tune of £458m, a new Premier League record for a summer window.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Because you can bank on the fact that, in L.A., people won’t turn up or tune in for flops and failure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Merry sang songs—all to the tune of “Jingle Bells”—and took little catnaps on a pink blanket under the pecan tree by the downstairs kitchen door.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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
At first she invented rhymes about the tundra and sang them to tunes she had learned at school.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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Mitch frantically tuned in on his iPad and tried to contain his excitement as his brother had an outstanding debut, nearly leading the Chargers to victory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
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
Many voters in Piracicaba’s main square say they have tuned out the election, exhausted by years of political warfare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 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
Olanna tuned the radio; it was too early for the war broadcasts, for the fire-filled monologues on Biafra’s greatness that she desperately needed to hear.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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 strain-dependent nature suggests that we may be able to use lattice strain as a tuning knob to induce or control altermagnetism," Zhang said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 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
By comparison, series five in 2019 broke the show's viewing records with 6m tuning in to an episode post Casa Amor, and that year's final had the highest average audience to date.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
She headed into the stacks, jingling her ear with her finger, tuning in her internal Dewey decimal system, another sign she was a born librarian.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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Music - Introductory
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