tune
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City's midfield was reshaped to the tune of £327m in the summer following the departures of captain Bernardo Silva and 2024 Ballon d'Or winner Rodri.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
As I was working on this article, our garbage disposal started leaking swamp water to the tune of $750.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
The tune of “Famous Last Words” reverberates throughout the Immanuel Presbyterian Church, a high-ceiling Gothic structure in Koreatown, on a rainy October morning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
"For engineering any type of tissue, it's known that these are knobs you can tune," Raman says.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 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
Chiminyo, a London-based independent artist, believes that auto-generated playlists are also misleading people into thinking they're listening to "hand-picked" tunes from bona fide artists - as opposed to digitally mass-produced sound-alikes created to catch streams.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
My favorite part was the home stretch of tunes from “Music, Fashion, Film”: “Camera,” a startlingly frank confession of her movie-star aspirations; “Magic Metal Montana,” a deeply tender ode to her friend and collaborator A.G.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Often, they relate to his lifelong passions: show tunes, railroads, the big-band era, Nebraska and early Frank Sinatra performances from the 1930s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
I still devour new music this way, clocking a daily average of four hours of tunes familiar and novel.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Three or four Ayorthaians at a time occupy the stage in turn and sing long, sad ballads or happy tunes or funny ones, joined by the whole throng in the choruses.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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It’s kind of like a lot of folks might go into a restaurant or a bar with the TV tuned to a game, but on mute.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
Stay tuned for next week, when we reveal three more Innovators ahead of our ceremony on Thursday, Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Stewart first became “Daily Show” host in 1999, and tuned the satirical news program into an important voice in the national discourse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Despite the early hour in Japan, thousands of people tuned into the live stream, posting messages of encouragement.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
These inexpensive radios could only be tuned to radio stations approved by the Nazi Party.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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Sayers isn't sure whether the new line-up has contributed to lower ratings - about six million people are tuning in every week this year, down by about a million.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
As his phone overheated in North Carolina, he decided that instead of tuning out the noise, he would jump cleats-first into the comments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Apparently, posting while watching the network he said he was tuning out.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Arellano: You know that Jake Tapper knows the average age of the audience tuning in to the debate is 65 or older when he quoted Johnny Carson’s famous Burbank putdown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
This often leads to some "tweaking" of the tuning in real performances, away from equal temperament.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Music - Introductory
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