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[toon, tyoon] / tun, tjun /




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What follows are four movements, each a free set of variations around a tune from the “Museum.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

"We know the liver is very much in tune with the body's circadian rhythms," he said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

The railways are currently subsidised to the tune of around £12bn a year - not including spending on major projects like HS2.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

“Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI,” Cage said on stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

A man sat on the steps of the trading post and tootled a lively tune on a pakila, or panpipes.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Friends Phoebe Constanta and Ella Birkwood, second-year students at Nottingham Trent University, are among those trying the new night that combines pumping iron with pumping tunes.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Politicians who once championed the AI infrastructure build-out have changed their tunes right as companies are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into ramping up computing capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

So it was quite something to witness velvet-clad Catalan pipers, sashaying down Barcelona's main boulevards, their medieval tunes intermingling with lilting music that accompanied flocks of brightly dressed Chinese performers.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

This conversation, which took place in a backstage trailer vibrating from the country and hip-hop tunes emanating from nearby stages, has been edited for length and clarity.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 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

"Our study shows that atomic-scale steps can act as effective rails that guide superconducting vortices, and that this guiding effect can be tuned simply by changing the temperature or magnetic field," said Uchihashi.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Since Singapore joined F1’s schedule in 2008, the brains behind the finely tuned machines at the likes of Ferrari and McLaren have brought that same optimization to jet lag.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Episodes are chopped up into two-minute dopamine hits, with endless cliff-hangers and plot twists to keep viewers tuned in.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

Teoscar Hernández and Andy Pages each hit home runs, a reminder that a properly tuned Dodgers offense runs on more than Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Will Smith.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

In East Douglas, Massachusetts, John tuned to NBC’s variety show The Chase and Sanborn Hour and listened for a while.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

"This gives us a completely new tuning knob for light. By adjusting its topology, we can decide how and where chirality appears," said Dr. Nape.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

The company raised its stake in German auto racing team and performance tuning company as part of its strategy to expand individualization options on its cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Beyond the broadcast networks, the wider media ecosystem is tuning him out.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

Along with other countries like Canada and Australia, Porchfests have been tuning up in more locations across the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Since they usually ignore the tuning, melodic forms, and other aesthetic principles of the traditions that they are borrowed from, such uses of "exotic" scales should not be considered accurate representations of those traditions.

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


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