tune out
verb
tuned out; tuning out; tunes out
: to become unresponsive to : ignore
: to dissociate oneself from what is happening or one's surroundings
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Instead of tuning out, audiences leaned in.
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Max Tani, semafor.com, 29 Dec. 2025
Fans, consumers, broadcasters, media and others, so the theory goes, could then tune out.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 27 Dec. 2025
Continue reading … Most New Yorkers are experts at tuning out the city’s chaos.
—The Editors, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
Democratic erosion accelerates when citizens and elites withdraw from contestation—when, out of fear, exhaustion, or sheer resignation, promising candidates decline to run for office, donors pull back, lawyers stop filing lawsuits, and citizens tune out.
—Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2025
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Max Tani, semafor.com, 29 Dec. 2025
Fans, consumers, broadcasters, media and others, so the theory goes, could then tune out.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 27 Dec. 2025
Continue reading … Most New Yorkers are experts at tuning out the city’s chaos.
—The Editors, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
Democratic erosion accelerates when citizens and elites withdraw from contestation—when, out of fear, exhaustion, or sheer resignation, promising candidates decline to run for office, donors pull back, lawyers stop filing lawsuits, and citizens tune out.
—Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2025
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“Tune out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tune%20out. Accessed 7 Jan. 2026.
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