attunement

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Recent Examples of attunement Given this, an executive’s most valuable assets are often their empathy, attunement, gravitas, and ability to read and respond to the room. Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026 In the Polish Pavilion, Bogna Burska and Daniel Kotowski explored communication beyond spoken language through immersive sound and image, proposing vibration, listening, and collective attunement as alternatives to institutional authority. Thomas Rom, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026 Some of these approaches require meticulous scholarship and technical proficiency; others, an attunement to the invisible realms of feeling and folklore. Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 1 June 2026 The researchers positioned intuitive attunement as something that gets dulled by painful experience and reclaimed through healing. Nia Bowers, USA Today, 8 May 2026 The route to durable faith in God often runs not through logical proofs or the sciences, but through awe, wonder, and an attunement to the beauty and poetry of the world, natural and otherwise. Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026 The novel, which jumps around in time from spectral reminiscences of the nineteenth century to the late 1980s and early 1990s and into the twenty-first century, follows the members of a Brooklyn family attempting to find stability while struggling with their strange attunement to the dead. Omari Weekes, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026 Still, there’s an unsettling calm, an attunement to the fragile truce between humankind and the capricious planet that nourishes it. Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 11 Feb. 2026 The essence of numinous Pisces heightens our sensitivity, imagination and spiritual attunement, while the North Node represents our growth and karmic direction, making this a moment where trusting your inner compass matters more than external validation. Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for attunement
Noun
  • Greater harmonization, through consistent implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility schemes, timely adoption of eco-modulation criteria, as well as simpler and more harmonized compliance requirements across Member States, is critical.
    María Luisa Martínez Díez, Footwear News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • If the two agencies can avoid repeating past regulatory disagreements and provide clear definitions, the harmonization will be a benefit for prediction markets, said Peter Chan, a Baker McKenzie partner and former SEC employee.
    Ananya Chetia,Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Noun
  • Despite the anxiety among investors that the bull market has to end, and all the headwinds that can be pointed to that may cause a correction if not a bear market, 10 out of 11 sectors in the S&P 500 just beat earnings estimates.
    Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Dinh remained in Monroe County’s main jail on Stock Island on Friday morning, according to corrections records.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • This may be a helpful readjustment for your husband.
    R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
  • As the second day of Group of Seven discussions proceed in Paris, the aftermath of a bond-market readjustment factoring in more inflation has raised the burden of proof needed to keep borrowing costs unchanged.
    Craig Stirling, Bloomberg, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • Counter walked IndieWire through a maze of electrical and ventilation equipment that has accumulated additions and modifications over the decades — all of it above a massive pitch-black attic.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, focus on physical barriers and habitat modification.
    Rachel Silva, Martha Stewart, 19 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • That’s made the industry one of the most visible examples of how China’s breakneck AI transformation is impacting people’s livelihoods — wiping out jobs and creating new ones, leaving everyone unsure what’s next.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
  • For most organizations, the transformation has already begun.
    Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The team is also confirming any alterations that may have been made to the painting over the last 250 years.
    Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • But California carries such power and influence that a bad result in Meta's home state could lead to much steeper penalties, including a broader overhaul that forces fundamental alterations to key algorithms.
    Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The revision writes a list of extraordinary circumstances into the regulation, the narrow set of events that let an airline refuse to pay.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Despite the revisions and outreach, some still oppose any new Boca Lago development.
    Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Make adjustments Before turning the ponytail into a bun, hairstylist Taylor Carter recommends preparing it for volume.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Later, the Moon opposes Uranus in your 12th House of Rest and Hidden Stress, so a schedule change, body signal, or private realization may ask for adjustment.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 20 Aug. 2026

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“Attunement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attunement. Accessed 24 Aug. 2026.

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