tune

El-Sayed is betting that enough people will tune it out as noise.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

I was already writing songs, but when we met, he gave me a lyric and I straightaway put a tune to it, and we didn’t even discuss that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Oil is increasingly calling the tune in global markets as rising energy prices make investors nervous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Oil is increasingly calling the tune in global markets, as rising energy prices and worries about how much consumers are paying at the gas pump are making investors nervous and affecting their portfolios.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 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

For more than 50 years, with a few breaks in between, Squeeze has been making memorable tunes by marrying infectious pop melodies with sophisticated and literate lyrics, often about the complexity of relationships.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Webb eschews the Wagnerian method of film scoring—dark motifs for the evil characters, bright tunes for the good ones—in favor of fluid, shifting psychological music, a forerunner of Hitchcock’s scores with Bernard Herrmann.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

She hummed one of the tunes, and after a while in the hot, empty house by herself she felt the tears come in her eyes.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

It makes perfect sense that a film with such finely tuned aesthetic sensibilities like “Practical Magic” would rise to the top of the ultimate autumn streaming picks.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 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

“The Governor’s Waltz” is a dreamy folk track about the stress of performance and desire for connection, with ghostly backing vocals and a piano that sounds like a series of tuned bells.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

He immediately reported this to Pim, who went to the private office, tuned the radio to a German station and locked the door.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

But these safeguards are easily bypassed by "tuning kits" or software hacks that make them capable of running much faster, sometimes in excess of 40mph.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

"The strain-dependent nature suggests that we may be able to use lattice strain as a tuning knob to induce or control altermagnetism," Zhang said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

The set begins with a crackle and a hum on “The Outside,” as if tuning into a faint radio transmission from the other side of the world, and then Ms. Bridgers’s voice arrives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Of course, if there are problems with tuning, the notes will not sound good together, but this is not what consonance and dissonance are about.

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