[ UK /ɐtjˈuːn/ ]
[ US /əˈtun/ ]
VERB
  1. adjust or accustom to; bring into harmony with
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How To Use attune In A Sentence

  • Had I been more attuned to racism in the office, I might have anticipated the reaction.
  • The musical instruments symbolize an underlying harmony behind nature's powers, to which the successful alchemist must himself be attuned.
  • The clinician must be well-attuned to the patient when the patient may be in the process of reconstructing schemas, thinking dialectically, recognizing paradox and generating a revised life narrative.
  • Therefore, the most successful programs were those that were attuned to the future and flexible enough to respond quickly.
  • reading of Homer and other texts, they rely heavily on Heidegger's concept of "attunement, NYT > Home Page
  • So again like a good politician I shall try to tailor my ideology to make it sound more attuned to a reality that surprises and confounds me.
  • To walk the Naga Hills with Kevin is to understand a mind and a community that is extraordinarily attuned to the environment in which they thrive, and which has as its fundament, the concept that we know and call as sustainability.
  • Then, while sitting in a chair in the lobby, drinking an electrolyte beverage while waiting for Donna to join me after her own health regime, I realized that I felt wonderful -- "attuned" might be the more precise word. Archive 2008-07-27
  • Thus Helen of Troy may have been a bewitching casus belli — and her elopement with Paris may have led to the deaths of thousands — but in fact she was acting with aret é ; she showed herself to be in close attunement with Aphrodite, who demanded an obedience not only to herself but to the imperatives of the heart. The Gods Return
  • But, despite its supposed attunement to natural universal energy, the shares have not done well since the float. Times, Sunday Times
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