attune
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In session, I attune to you, reflect and interpret.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
But it also taps into the precision with which her books ask the reader to attune themselves to her characters’ realities, even if the most we can capture of them is merely a shadow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
The more the community is represented in meetings, and in discussions in general, Barlet feels, the more attune the whole group is to its needs.
From The Verge ● Jul. 15, 2022
I am learning to attune my senses to subtleties.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2021
Soon the internal tumult, caused by what I had just gone through, began to subside, and my spirits rose attune to the glories of the afternoon.
From My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia by Robert Watson
But as the book went on I realized it wasn’t really written for readers like me, but rather for those whose culture attunes them to the idea that death is a porous border.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
“Escape from Alcatraz,” like “A Man Escaped,” opens with a period title card and the arrival of a prisoner, and it quickly attunes viewers to the sound of footsteps and shackles.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2020
Understanding, anticipating, and responding to change is at the heart of science fiction—envisioning ourselves amid the strange and the fantastic attunes us to the unexpected and helps us chart a course to a better future.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2020
Before long, the algorithm can detect a “p” sound across multiple languages, and exposure to those languages further attunes its senses.
From Time ● Mar. 24, 2015
The receptive condition of the patient, as he is expecting and opening himself up to your psychic force, attunes him to receive your vibrations whenever you may send them.
From The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath by William Walker Atkinson
The meow, as cute and attuned as it may be to get a human’s attention, is not in his mind a tool for manipulation, as some have proffered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
They are more attuned to financial and other feasibilities, which gives them a clearer road map to success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Donahue said millennial and Gen Z couples are attuned to the messiness of divorce after witnessing what their parents’ generation endured.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Rather, it is about becoming attuned to their characteristics and developing a gut feeling.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
It was something about his vibe, Jam thought, something about how attuned they were to each other.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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For centuries the finest medical minds harped on attuning a balance among the four humors—sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic—in tender young constitutions by adjusting the proportions of hot-cold and moist-dry elements in the diet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Goodman is credited with attuning it to New Age sensibilities and turning astrology from a niche interest into a pop-culture juggernaut.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
My attention span is so bad lately that it really is just me closing my eyes and composing emails that I’ll forget to send rather than attuning to some higher power.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
She was an artist not just adept at expressing her own vulnerabilities, but attuning to those of her listeners.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025
It strikes us as hardly a fanciful supposition that many prayers fail to obtain an answer for a precisely analogous reason, i.e., for lack of attuning.
From Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive by Joseph Warschauer
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