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
  • Sagittarius November 22 – December 21 A friendship or group conversation may need a little course correction today.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • But Watling is not the only person to flag a coming correction, generally defined as a 10% to 20% decline in value from a recent peak.
    — Jenni Reid, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • This may be a helpful readjustment for your husband.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • Even without modification, white privacy lights are easily obscured by bangs and a bright sunny day.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Those systems support modifications, upgrades and integration work around the aircraft’s mission architecture.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • It is now being managed by the Ritz Carlton after a $55 million transformation that wrapped up in Spring 2024.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Only instead of letting the shade swap speak for itself like both Hailey Bieber and Ella Bright have, Turner texturized the transformation with voluminous barrel curls straight from the big book of ’80s beauty.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The hotel continues to honor the building's textile history, offering guests an alterations service provided by the professionals at Santa Eulalia, the most prestigious tailors in Barcelona.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Now, after a year of evaluation and alterations to its location, U pick fields, methods of payment and schedule, the Knaus team has instituted a few new rules.
    — Connie Ogle October 1, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Modi's party and the Election Commission say the revision is aimed at removing duplicate and ineligible entries while ensuring eligible voters remain registered.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026
  • In the past few weeks, the university distributed a revision of the proposal the task force rejected to at least some County Commissioners.
    — Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • General Daily Insight for October 09, 2026 Today is less about having the perfect answer and more about making a useful adjustment.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Today is less about having the perfect answer and more about making a useful adjustment.
    — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2026

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“Attunement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attunement. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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