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
  • Still, that correction has been used to manipulate the study data in a way that significantly misrepresents miscarriage risk associated with Covid-19 vaccinations.
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Williams also committed 32 prison disciplinary violations, state corrections department records show.
    Tim Hrenchir, USA Today, 13 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
  • The proposal could also allow some drivers to avoid further penalties by correcting their vehicle's modifications and bringing it into compliance.
    Terell Bailey, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Ford also admitted there’s been rear wing modifications via the DRS system and an additional set of dive planes mounted on the front bumper.
    Joel Feder, The Drive, 13 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • More research has been focused on looking into how transformations like these impact our chances of developing neurodegenerative diseases like dementia.
    Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Disney California Adventure is on the verge of a transformation.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The judges rejected the administration's national security argument and said the president does not have the authority to make such major alterations to the White House without congressional approval.
    Nathan Lee, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Some of the deadliest cancers, including many pancreatic, colorectal and lung cancers, share a common genetic alteration in a protein called KRAS.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Fulmer missed the 2019 season after having Tommy John surgery and the entire 2024 season after having UCL revision surgery.
    Kyle Glaser, Oc Register, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Antone went under the knife for another revision of his elbow surgery in 2024.
    C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Its quincunx to Saturn in your 9th House of Learning and Travel may highlight a budget, deadline, or long-term goal that needs a small adjustment.
    Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Name the number, explain the why, and suggest one adjustment that helps security feel more mutual, not just managed.
    Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026

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“Attunement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attunement. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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