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
  • Fault-tolerant machines require extensive error correction, which adds more hardware and control requirements.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
  • That's backed by continuous star drift correction and a precision drive.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 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
  • Law enforcement agencies have partnered with the company to speed up investigations by having access to a database that logs vehicle information like license plate, make, model, dents or modifications.
    Irene Wright, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The Dispatch is made with an all-aluminum monocoque construction that helps simplify field repairs, assembly, and modification using basic tools.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The terrorist organization became a phone screen The transformation is now reflected in the government's own threat assessments.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Recovery and transformation As small businesses in the area fought to stay afloat, an injection of federal cash helped the effort.
    Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Most of these alterations are trivial, although one major change, coming near the end, is a very bad idea.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • At the Federal Center on Dearborn Street, post-9/11 security alterations have severely compromised one of the city’s most powerful urban designs.
    Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • In many cases, the effort to build faster can invite new delays, higher costs, and revisions.
    Janay Kingsberry, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Labor Department revisions also looked good, adding 55,000 to June and July payrolls.
    Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • That number includes adjustments for socioeconomic differences.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
  • This enables automatic system adjustments during major events, disturbances or shifting demand.
    Miroslav Katsarov, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

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“Attunement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attunement. Accessed 14 Sep. 2026.

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