attuned; attuning; attunes
1
: to bring into harmony : tune
2
: to make aware or responsive
attune businesses to changing trends
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after years spent in academia, he's finding it difficult to attune himself to the corporate culture
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But, in fact, the best new programs have been smartly attuned to what's going on in the country's culture.
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
Raised in Iowa, Brown is acutely attuned to the destruction caused by overly mechanized agriculture, climate change, manufactured toxins and environmental inequity.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 11 Nov. 2024
For this plotline to work, the wife must be attuned, sometimes newly so, to herself, her unhappiness, her desires—a fictional extension of the powerful, if reductive, idea that women can protect themselves from harm by understanding their own wants and limits.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
However, the specific concerns, values, and language each group uses to describe their disappointment could differ, so effective AI consolation may need to be attuned to these nuances.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
Raised in Iowa, Brown is acutely attuned to the destruction caused by overly mechanized agriculture, climate change, manufactured toxins and environmental inequity.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 11 Nov. 2024
For this plotline to work, the wife must be attuned, sometimes newly so, to herself, her unhappiness, her desires—a fictional extension of the powerful, if reductive, idea that women can protect themselves from harm by understanding their own wants and limits.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
However, the specific concerns, values, and language each group uses to describe their disappointment could differ, so effective AI consolation may need to be attuned to these nuances.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Attune.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/attune. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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