as in to pass over
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Recent Examples of tune out
This is a perfect time to revise your website, realign your goals, or take a social media sabbatical to tune out noise and tune into truth.
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Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 20 July 2025
Colbert’s relative popularity in a genre that has seen audiences tuning out has some scratching their heads about CBS ending the program.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 18 July 2025
Massachusetts lawmakers should regroup, and tune out the cable tax.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 24 June 2025
Fans who tuned out, due to lack of city sizzle, missed out.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 23 June 2025
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Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 20 July 2025
Colbert’s relative popularity in a genre that has seen audiences tuning out has some scratching their heads about CBS ending the program.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 18 July 2025
Massachusetts lawmakers should regroup, and tune out the cable tax.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 24 June 2025
Fans who tuned out, due to lack of city sizzle, missed out.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tune out
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The eclipse began over the South Pacific Ocean and passed over Mexico before traveling directly over 13 U.S. states from Texas to Maine.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Aug. 2025
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Companies with high employee turnover, poor management structures or toxic cultures can get heavily discounted or passed over entirely.—
Keegan Caldwell,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Pat Riley in 2025 is not the same Pat Riley who got blown off by LeBron James at that Vegas hotel in 2014 free agency.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Aug. 2025
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In one scene, as Alvin putters by on the shoulder, dozens of cyclists speed past him, blowing off his hat.—
Matthew Schnipper,
Vulture,
31 July 2025
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This isn’t about weakening rights or ignoring the role of guns.—
For the Carroll County Times,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Aug. 2025
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Somehow the checkers are ignoring the fact that Trump was referring to the five-year period.—
John R. Lott Jr,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Aug. 2025
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Perhaps the most significant finding in the survey presented by the Design Museum is one that the curators disregard in their presentation: The design of more-than-human design protocols has scarcely begun.—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Earlier that morning, Makin sent a mass email to her Maine Department of Education colleagues, outlining impending defiance of Trump's executive order, disregarding his threats of federal funding cuts.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
28 July 2025
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Related article Gay rights icon Harvey Milk’s legacy slighted by decision to rename Navy ship Wald says that waiting to transition can create additional psychological distress for a child and can raise their risk of depression, suicidality, self-harm or substance misuse.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
18 June 2025
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Despite Meg’s efforts to connect, Ellen (Kyra Sedgwick) repeatedly slights her future daughter-in-law.—
Natalia Winkelman,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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“Tune out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tune%20out. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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