attunement

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Recent Examples of attunement Research on kissing converges on a picture that is less about physical prowess and more about attunement to your own body, to your partner and to the emotional weight of the moment. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 13 June 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
  • OpenAI's testimony in Illinois explicitly invokes the federal-harmonization framing that the executive order prefers.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • On Wednesday, the two fashion industry bodies unveiled a joint ESG harmonization framework aimed at supporting suppliers and preparing brands for coming European regulatory requirements.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • Each robot must independently interpret ball position and goalkeeper movement before committing to a strike, making split-second corrections based on sensor feedback.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026
  • In that sense, an eye appointment can reveal information that goes far beyond vision correction.
    Connie Etemadi, Miami Herald, 24 June 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
  • Horvath said the county hopes to receive tens of millions of dollars in state funding for additional brush clearance, fuel modification, home hardening and other initiatives.
    Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • These modifications are specific, positional and increasingly mappable.
    KJ Dhaliwal, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • But there was a third global transformation on their heels.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • The real attraction is the transformation itself.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • The key difference is that rather than suggesting preset visuals, the AI Camera Assistant is ostensibly reacting to the scene, subject, and lighting to dynamically suggest the best alterations for that specific moment — that’s the AI of it all.
    Dominic Preston, The Verge, 23 June 2026
  • The combination of a structure design that did not meet building codes and alterations made to it over its 40 years meant that the other parts of the pool deck weren’t strong enough to withstand the extra load, leading to the type of slow-motion collapse.
    ABC News, ABC News, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • The upward revision can be attributed to a downward revision on imports, which subtracts from GDP.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
  • Brian Duffield wrote the initial screenplay based off the short story by Phillip Fracassi, with revisions by Mollner.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Even better, the smocked bodice offers a comfortable, flattering fit, and the tie at the bustline allows for easy adjustments.
    Destinee Scott, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2026
  • Traditional control surfaces create gaps and protrusions that increase radar cross-section and require constant adjustments in fly-by-wire systems.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026

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“Attunement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attunement. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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