as in to pass over
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Recent Examples of tune out
Over his nearly seven-decade career on stage and screen, McKellen says he’s learned to tune out the noise of others’ opinions.
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Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2026
Elsewhere in the interview, Washington shared that her kids — daughter Isabelle, 11, son Caleb, 9, and a stepdaughter, 20 — help her tune out and enjoy herself.
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Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
14 Apr. 2026
With 30 total hours of battery life and a secure, comfortable fit, these are the ultimate tools for anyone looking to tune out the world and tune into their favorite tracks.
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Juhi Wadia,
PC Magazine,
10 Mar. 2026
Symptoms can include a desire to tune out for a spell, stick your head in an ice bucket, or find another way to numb the senses.
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Steve Lopez,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2026
Elsewhere in the interview, Washington shared that her kids — daughter Isabelle, 11, son Caleb, 9, and a stepdaughter, 20 — help her tune out and enjoy herself.
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Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
14 Apr. 2026
With 30 total hours of battery life and a secure, comfortable fit, these are the ultimate tools for anyone looking to tune out the world and tune into their favorite tracks.
—
Juhi Wadia,
PC Magazine,
10 Mar. 2026
Symptoms can include a desire to tune out for a spell, stick your head in an ice bucket, or find another way to numb the senses.
—
Steve Lopez,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tune out
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Reid, though, might be good enough for Davidson not to pass over.
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For Iceland, this solar eclipse is considered especially epic since a total eclipse hasn't passed over the country since 1954, according to the Blue Lagoon, and the next one isn’t predicted to strike until 2196.
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Hickory Hills and Bridgeview area residents stood outside their apartment building Friday looking at the roof blown off and a piece of wood impaling a garage.
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So Clark blew off the steam that comes with the heat of competition, all eyes in the arena on her, to get that second technical with 22 seconds left and the Fever up 10.
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Price is where almost every search starts, and the difference between countries is hard to ignore.
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By the time the sponsor wants to sell, the buyer sees what the sponsor ignored.
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The video showed a car disregarding a stop sign and a patrol officer speeding up to pull the vehicle over.
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The best thing to do is to just disregard it.
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For each of the murders, the four men either lured or abducted and drove the victims to the Angeles National Forest after the victims slighted the gang in different ways, according to the Justice Department.
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Romano’s sturdy book may not stint on examples of Mary’s bad behavior—including a ferociously jealous verbal assault, near the end of the war, on the wife of a prominent Union general—but the biographer keeps tilting against those who slighted Mary in even the most superficial ways.
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“Tune out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tune%20out. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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