attunement

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Recent Examples of attunement Sharing, the final step in the framework, relies on social attunement, vulnerability and mutual feedback. — Kelly Huang, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 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
  • Speakers also called for greater administrative harmonization and support for emerging creative industries.
    — Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The two organizations earlier this year unveiled a joint ESG harmonization framework aimed at supporting suppliers and preparing brands for coming European regulatory requirements.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Quantum error correction is a major bottleneck that is significantly delaying the rollout of quantum computing in the real world.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The new capability allows for quantum error correction across operations without slowing down execution time, IonQ said.
    — Scott Schnipper, CNBC, 23 Sep. 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
  • To do this, workers make surgical modifications and upgrades to key plant equipment, including turbines, pumps, motors and cooling systems.
    — Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Fewer design changes The first of Gaucher’s four-pillar strategy involves locking in submarine designs to prevent modifications from slowing construction.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The one group left out of this transformation, Nussbaum believed, were working-class women.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Ahead, Bélanger details Reinhart’s transformation, how hair furthers the stories of both her character and costar Tom Bateman’s, and gives us a glimpse of the happenings behind the scenes.
    — Jesa Marie Calaor, Allure, 23 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Yet, the oxygen isotopes in these primitive samples remained virtually untouched by parent-body alteration.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
  • One of his biggest alterations, which came late in the process, were to the nails on the hands.
    — Lavender Au, ARTnews.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Successful tools will likely treat verification and revision as essential features instead of secondary considerations.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Analysis revealed the work to be by Velázquez and, interestingly, showed that the artist made a number of revisions to the nobleman’s dress and armor.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 24 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Committing to the fundamentals There was going to be an adjustment process on the offensive line; there always is when five new players have to learn to play together as one unit for the first time.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 24 Sep. 2026
  • China, the world’s largest crude importer, also made a large, orchestrated adjustment that resulted in its seaborne imports’ dropping from over 11 million barrels a day before the war to just over seven million in August.
    — RICHARD HAASS, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026

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“Attunement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attunement. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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