well-tuned

Example Sentences

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She said access to a well-tuned and maintained instrument can motivate students to keep playing music — and it can change a life.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2025

But well-tuned software could easily find the right stocks to keep the accounts tracking the market.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2023

Now he must show that he can operate the state’s well-tuned vote-by-mail machinery well enough to uphold Wyman’s legacy and maintain the public’s faith.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2021

Both released in the grim year of 2020, though written well before lockdown, the books were well-tuned to the apocalyptic mood, but also ironically ill-suited to the actual apocalypse we find ourselves in.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2021

She looked back at Luna and pictured the mechanism inside that girl—rhythmically ticking its way toward her thirteenth birthday, as even and inexorable as a well-tuned clock.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill