attuned; attuning; attunes
1
: to bring into harmony : tune
2
: to make aware or responsive
attune businesses to changing trends
Examples of attune in a Sentence
after years spent in academia, he's finding it difficult to attune himself to the corporate culture
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In Scott’s case, though, progressives who would usually be attuned to abuses in the Australian criminal-justice system are the same figures demanding accountability for unredressed hate crimes.
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Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
In such contests, the most lethal weapon is not a rifle, but a mind attuned to complexity.
—Loree Sutton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Or perhaps, Hamas may finally be attuned to the desperate plight of Gazans and respond to it.
—Asher Kaufman, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
However, Thalund and screenwriter Marianne Lentz imbue the set-up with a fresh 2025 perspective while attuning the material to a very particular Danish frequency in a society perpetually triangulating between child-centric educational approaches, permissiveness and conformity.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2025
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Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
In such contests, the most lethal weapon is not a rifle, but a mind attuned to complexity.
—Loree Sutton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Or perhaps, Hamas may finally be attuned to the desperate plight of Gazans and respond to it.
—Asher Kaufman, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
However, Thalund and screenwriter Marianne Lentz imbue the set-up with a fresh 2025 perspective while attuning the material to a very particular Danish frequency in a society perpetually triangulating between child-centric educational approaches, permissiveness and conformity.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for attune
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“Attune.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/attune. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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