: aware of and attentive or responsive to something
—used with to
… designed to produce a … police department that is more attuned to the needs of individual communities …—
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Clifford Krauss… what's especially crucial is the mother's or caregiver's "sensitivity"—how attuned she is to her child's experience of the world.—Pamela Druckerman
Pamela Druckerman… disenchanted with a government that seems more attuned to the interests of big business and rural folk than to those of urban dwellers.—Edwin O. Reischauer
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Below, find out what each of her seemingly innocent adjustments meant to her staff, who were attuned to her secret signals.
—Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 10 Mar. 2026
Early birds who are already attuned to waking up early might have an easier time adjusting than night owls, Manoogian says.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2026
His interior life—that which feeds the poet, let alone one as attuned to nuance and the glamour of social life as Merrill—had grown stale.
—Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026
The new ‘Burbs, expanded to eight episodes by creator Celeste Hughey, seems at first to be a stale, simplistic fusion of its namesake and the more recent wave of racially attuned social thrillers popularized by Get Out director Jordan Peele.
—Judy Berman, Time, 27 Feb. 2026
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Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 10 Mar. 2026
Early birds who are already attuned to waking up early might have an easier time adjusting than night owls, Manoogian says.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2026
His interior life—that which feeds the poet, let alone one as attuned to nuance and the glamour of social life as Merrill—had grown stale.
—Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026
The new ‘Burbs, expanded to eight episodes by creator Celeste Hughey, seems at first to be a stale, simplistic fusion of its namesake and the more recent wave of racially attuned social thrillers popularized by Get Out director Jordan Peele.
—Judy Berman, Time, 27 Feb. 2026
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“Attuned.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/attuned. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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