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
  • 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
  • Waiting for regulatory harmonization is not a strategy.
    Bojan Ilic, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • After the judge pronounced the sentence, corrections officers handcuffed Andres and took him to the courtroom’s back doors.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
  • The probe also showed the crew was distracted by routine radio communications and administrative tasks during severe icing warnings and did not make correction maneuvers in time.
    ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 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
  • AlignSphere Ventures is asking the city for a conditional-use permit to build the hospital, as well as a development-agreement modification and a preliminary plat.
    Rose Evans July 24, Idaho Statesman, 24 July 2026
  • Some critics contend that this approach may not be widely applicable, with workers in many hourly or low wage jobs unlikely to be employed at companies that would adopt this modification.
    Adia Harvey Wingfield, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Noun
  • Far-right activist Laura Loomer went from criticizing Ukraine to meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a rapid transformation that came as a pleasant surprise to Europe and Ukraine’s backers.
    Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 24 July 2026
  • The social media algorithm rewards rapid before-and-after transformations or bold statements without nuance, which can affect the way people expect things to happen for them, Aleksic said.
    Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 24 July 2026
Noun
  • The avenue lies within the city’s original historic district, where preservation rules tightly regulate new construction and alterations.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026
  • The coalition said a data center would need 20 megawatts of power, which the group believes would require significant alterations to the building.
    George Avalos, Mercury News, 20 July 2026
Noun
  • That includes driver license revisions as well as precinct and district changes stemming from congressional redistricting.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2026
  • Japan's upper house has passed controversial revisions to the law on the succession to the throne.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 17 July 2026
Noun
  • That’s one adjustment Timu, previously a defensive assistant before taking on a full-time position coach role this spring, has been forced to make.
    Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 24 July 2026
  • For example, Social Security benefits receive cost-of-living adjustments.
    True Tamplin, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

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“Attunement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attunement. Accessed 27 Jul. 2026.

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