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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Shortly after the festival, a source close to the couple, who tied the knot in 2018, said that the pair is trying to tune out the noise.
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Michelle Lee, People.com, 13 May 2025
But readers who had obsessively tracked Trump’s four convulsive years in office were ready to tune out the relative normalcy of the Biden White House; the Post lost about three hundred thousand subscribers in the first year of Biden’s Presidency.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
Instead, try to tune out the noise, and stay grounded in your long-term financial plan which is designed to weather financial uncertainty.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 May 2025
Another factor: our brains tend to tune out the appearance of familiar, everyday objects, in a phenomenon called attentional blindness.
—Matt Fuchs, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
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Michelle Lee, People.com, 13 May 2025
But readers who had obsessively tracked Trump’s four convulsive years in office were ready to tune out the relative normalcy of the Biden White House; the Post lost about three hundred thousand subscribers in the first year of Biden’s Presidency.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
Instead, try to tune out the noise, and stay grounded in your long-term financial plan which is designed to weather financial uncertainty.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 May 2025
Another factor: our brains tend to tune out the appearance of familiar, everyday objects, in a phenomenon called attentional blindness.
—Matt Fuchs, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Tune out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tune%20out. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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