attuned
adjective
at·tuned
| \ ə-ˈtünd
, -ˈtyünd\
, -ˈtyünd\
Definition of attuned
: aware of and attentive or responsive to something
—used with to … designed to produce a … police department that is more attuned to the needs of individual communities …— Clifford Krauss… what's especially crucial is the mother's or caregiver's "sensitivity"—how attuned she is to her child's experience of the world.— Pamela Druckerman… disenchanted with a government that seems more attuned to the interests of big business and rural folk than to those of urban dwellers.— Edwin O. Reischauer
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In the absence of body-language cues, Jill said, volunteers become attuned to vocal characteristics. — Alison Kuznitz, BostonGlobe.com, "‘I validate your pain’: A new suicide prevention program on Cape Cod is rethinking mental health care," 10 Aug. 2019 The developers of the game are attuned to its popularity and release updates weekly with new items and actions. — Josh Axelrod And Saeed Ahmed, CNN, "All the questions about 'Fortnite' you were too embarrassed to ask," 26 July 2019 As satisfying as this menu may be for the musicians, all-Brahms can be very heavy going for listeners not attuned to such a calorie-rich diet. — Richard S. Ginell, latimes.com, "Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos and Emanuel Ax: Brahms all-stars at Disney Hall," 5 Mar. 2018 Moscow, of course, is a major city, with more than 12 million residents, so Putin’s regime is going to be particularly attuned to what’s going on in the city. — Jen Kirby, Vox, "The pro-democracy protests rocking Moscow, explained," 13 Aug. 2019 According to Amanda Ruggeri of the BBC, the animals have become attuned to the rhythm of the sea, sleeping during high tide and waking up at low tide to eat. — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, "A Remote Scottish Island Needs Help Protecting Its Seaweed-Eating Sheep," 27 June 2019 My first two pregnancies have been gradually becoming more proprioceptive, more attuned to the subtleties that are going on [in my body]. — Nicole Cliffe, SELF, "Alanis Morissette on Pregnancy at 45, Childbirth, Postpartum Depression, and #MeToo," 26 June 2019 And, indeed, thoughtful conservatives (and, once upon a time, thoughtful progressives) are very much attuned to that. — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, "What Noah Smith Gets Wrong about Poverty," 31 July 2019 In recent months, those attuned to the affinities of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have been hearing about a young San Francisco startup called Superhuman. — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, "What the Superhuman Controversy Reveals About the Shifting Ethics of Software," 17 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'attuned.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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