attune

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

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

His genius awakes at once, and all his faculties attune to sprightliness and pleasure.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

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

There is deep sadness and melancholy in the music that attunes itself to her own sorrowful reflections.

From The Haunted Chamber A Novel by Duchess

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

The good ones are attuned to what motivates people on their teams and who works well with whom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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

Every part of me is attuned to the work.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

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

What is needed is a plan by which the waves may flow either continuously or so near together that they may lend themselves to attuning.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery by George Iles