: aware of and attentive or responsive to something
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… 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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Millennials, resolute in their fatigue, are less swayed by surface-level marketing and more attuned to what actually makes work sustainable.
—Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Maybe that’s where the photographer turns up again, in a much more subtle way—not in the frame, not in the way of filming, but in the way of being attuned to the minute, to the fraction of a second that’s not the same as any other.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2026
His onscreen presence tautens his creation of images; his own repertory of mannerisms, expressions, and gestures is uniquely attuned to his cinematic universe.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026
This was in the thick of Charli XCX’s Brat summer and the Chappell Roan explosion — a period when label executives were especially attuned to the commercial possibilities of young, clever, and charismatic female pop singers.
—Carrie Battan, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
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Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Maybe that’s where the photographer turns up again, in a much more subtle way—not in the frame, not in the way of filming, but in the way of being attuned to the minute, to the fraction of a second that’s not the same as any other.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2026
His onscreen presence tautens his creation of images; his own repertory of mannerisms, expressions, and gestures is uniquely attuned to his cinematic universe.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026
This was in the thick of Charli XCX’s Brat summer and the Chappell Roan explosion — a period when label executives were especially attuned to the commercial possibilities of young, clever, and charismatic female pop singers.
—Carrie Battan, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
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“Attuned.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/attuned. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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