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Recent Examples of tune out
Members, however, should tune out the Jefferies note for two reasons.
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Morgan Chittum,matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2025
Shutdown talk is nowhere on Wall Street, which gets less animated by local economy stories anyway and has also started to tune out Washington chaos — for better or worse.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Over time, team members tune out their words and begin to question the sincerity of their actions.
—Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The music isn't too loud to tune out and the chairs are comfortable.
—Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Morgan Chittum,matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2025
Shutdown talk is nowhere on Wall Street, which gets less animated by local economy stories anyway and has also started to tune out Washington chaos — for better or worse.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Over time, team members tune out their words and begin to question the sincerity of their actions.
—Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The music isn't too loud to tune out and the chairs are comfortable.
—Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tune out
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The worst of the storm is expected to have passed over Jamaica by Wednesday morning.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Oct. 2025
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Democrats argue legislation to reopen the government should also extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies and reverse Republicans’ Medicaid cuts passed over the summer.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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Cash is king right now, Hsia said, and the AFJ is matching up to $1 million in donations that will go toward things such as new roofs for houses whose roofs were blown off and new furniture after many people's belongings were soaked through and ruined.—
Matt Nighswander,
NBC news,
30 Oct. 2025
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According to the Greek historian Herodotus, who composed his glorious amalgamation of legend and fact in the fourth-century BC, Helen never even reached Troy because Paris’s ship was blown off course.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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The lawsuit alleges Parker ignored concerns raised by several teachers and staff members, including that the student may have had a gun in his possession hours before the shooting.—
Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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In fact, they’d merely been habituated, the way a bird learns to ignore a rhino.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
30 Oct. 2025
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The Raine family’s lawyers will have to prove that OpenAI was aware of the risks posed by ChatGPT and disregarded them.—
Nikita Ostrovsky,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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This time, the environmental advocacy group contended that San Diego’s supplemental analysis of the visual impacts of taller buildings, prepared in advance of the 2022 ballot measure, disregarded other consequential environmental factors.—
Jennifer Van Grove,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Oct. 2025
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Yet the current Hawkeyes remain unranked and, to the players, somewhat slighted.—
Scott Dochterman,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025
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And now, fans are listening to soul remixes and slighting hip-hop’s resonance.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Tune out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tune%20out. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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