tune

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Officials told departments late last year that they needed to make cuts to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in the face of what at the time was a projected $936 million deficit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Fox predicted last month that an average of 15 million U.S. fans will tune in to watch the matches involving the American team, and it hopes that those games could draw 150 million in total.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

So whether we’re looking at a Bass-Raman contest or a Bass-Pratt showdown, here are some random musings, and I’ll begin by responding to Bob’s question about whether I have changed my tune.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

By changing which atoms receive particular energy shifts, scientists can tune the system to produce a variety of entangled states without altering the physical hardware.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026

I begin strumming the melancholy tune on my guitar, and after a while, I say, “Teach me more of that song you sang for me the other day.”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar