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attune

[uh-toon, uh-tyoon] / əˈtun, əˈtjun /


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With Raymond, there was no need to explain certain things — the way we both attune to vibration, body language, visual cues, timing and space was already part of our lived experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025

Enjoying solitude is said to increase creativity, help us recharge, and attune to our sense of self.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 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

Nature brooks no delay, and the disharmonic organism must attune itself or perish.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard

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

But the incident my canto Now attunes to hum’rous mention, Had its birth one fair October, Eighteen hundred eight and thirty.

From The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. by Eugenia Dunlap Potts

He also went on a listening tour of the country in an effort to show he was attuned to the needs of France’s rural working class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Some grandparents are very attuned to the potential for mismatched expectations.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Conversations like this reminded me that people with little power are often attuned to the differences between what they hear from authorities and what they know in their guts.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

He's bounced back from challenging situations in his football past and you almost become attuned to him doing so again, but there is a lot to fix here.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

But he was so attuned to my every movement I was sure he was reading my mind.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

This could also be an opportunity for them to perform the “love exercise” of having grace and compassion for you, and attuning to your needs more deeply.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

She was an artist not just adept at expressing her own vulnerabilities, but attuning to those of her listeners.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025

The Buddha suggests that we work with the fundamental dissatisfaction we feel by releasing craving, and attuning to the sensory richness of the present moment.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024

With his helix he began attuning the length of his sparks, while the snake-like blue 122 flame hissed and crackled across the “high-efficiency” spark gap.

From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by John Henry Goldfrap


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