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tune

[toon, tyoon] / tun, tjun /




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Manchester City have completed their squad overhaul - including a fully revamped midfield - to the tune of £458m, a new Premier League record for a summer window.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Because you can bank on the fact that, in L.A., people won’t turn up or tune in for flops and failure.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

Parton’s upbeat performance of this tune is deceptive.

From Salon Aug. 29, 2026

But in the past couple of weeks—and with his bid for a fourth term pending—Abbott has changed his tune.

From Slate Aug. 29, 2026

Listen to antecedent and consequent phrases in the tune "Auld Lang Syne."

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Soothe your inner child with some nostalgic tunes: When Rebecca Knight became a parent, she vowed that her kids wouldn’t listen to Raffi.

From Slate Sep. 2, 2026

Parton once estimated that she composed or collaborated on more than 3000 tunes in her lifetime, recording some 450 of them.

From Salon Aug. 29, 2026

Waves of tributes poured in this week to Tennessee star Parton, whose best-loved tunes were also played across the nation, evidently.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

During a prolific career that spanned six decades, Parton penned some 3,000 tunes.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

Nana was playing show tunes on a weathered piano while a pair of older men—one a gravelly baritone and the other a timeless tenor—sang along.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Season 2 of “Adults” makes a critic question why he wasn’t better tuned in to season 1.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

More than 17,000 people poured into Veterans Stadium for standing room only, and many more tuned into the first nationally televised high school game.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

The protein was tuned to detect blue light, an adaptation that could help Greenland sharks see in the faint light available deep beneath Arctic waters.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

Open-weight means that anyone can copy the product and use it, but the user has no visibility into how it was developed or whether it has been tuned to create secret security vulnerabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Fred tuned her out and enjoyed the ride north to Connecticut.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

When AFP visited Shenqu in July, rows upon rows of finished guitars sat neatly on racks, awaiting final tuning checks before shipment.

From Barron's Aug. 31, 2026

"We believe that such selective translational tuning of gene expression through dietary manipulation likely extends to many other proteins and amino acids."

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

With nothing more than a smartphone, a lighting kit and a fridge full of fresh meat, halal butcher Manny Malik from Wolverhampton had around two hundred people tuning into his session.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Behind the scenes of soccer commentary: If you’ve been tuning in to the World Cup, you’ve probably been struck by the announcers’ uniquely energetic, passionate commentary.

From Slate Jul. 8, 2026

We all turn on our amps and set to tuning our basses like Ty showed us the first day.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon




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