attunement

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Recent Examples of attunement The author’s grand and ambitious novels are written with warmth and a whimsical attunement to the human condition. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026 Authenticity needs attunement—meaning, share openly, but notice when the room asks you to rein it in. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 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
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
  • Those failed rallies eventually gave way to a correction of approximately 10%, accompanied by the Iran conflict.
    — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Johnson said the office has already audited its corrections spending to see what could be cut back on, based on requests from the Kane County Board to reduce its spending.
    — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Covers that bunch, slide or require constant readjustment have long been the top complaint, and manufacturers are now designing around it.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
  • These nuclei absorb laser light only when the frequency is precisely matched, allowing any decrease in absorption to trigger an automatic frequency readjustment.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Do the same exercise as noted above, with or without the modification, with your feet together and uncrossed.
    — Dana Santas, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Its existing capabilities provide a starting point for the conversion, although the transport configuration cannot perform the new mission without substantial modifications.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • For her own transformation into Highsmith, the costuming was of immense importance.
    — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Even during our current era of innovation and technological transformation, today’s kitchen looks remarkably similar to the one Schütte-Lihotzky designed 100 years earlier.
    — Tara Anne Dalbow, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • These small changes may help shoppers avoid more expensive alterations.
    — Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The White House For Season 4, Beech made some alterations to the White House set.
    — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The Election Commission says the revision will remove duplicate entries, deceased voters and noncitizens.
    — Amrita Basu, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Script is by Laura Kosann with revisions by Ari Berkowitz and Ava Tramer.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • That would also give staff time to share the reasons for fee changes with the community, monitor potential impacts, evaluate customer responses and make adjustments as needed.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • There have been much smaller posture adjustments at several other embassies in the Middle East -- changes officials say are also linked to the Houthi threat and other matters not connected to any plan to resume combat against Iran.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026

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“Attunement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attunement. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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