ATTUNING Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

attuning

verb

present participle of attune

as in reconciling

to bring to a state free of conflicts, inconsistencies, or differences after years spent in academia, he's finding it difficult to attune himself to the corporate culture

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Recent Examples of attuning However, Thalund and screenwriter Marianne Lentz imbue the set-up with a fresh 2025 perspective while attuning the material to a very particular Danish frequency in a society perpetually triangulating between child-centric educational approaches, permissiveness and conformity. —

Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2025 And Blanc tries to solve what happened by seeing the big picture, tuning into the spirits that are guiding things, and attuning the audience to them. —

Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025

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reconciling

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The actor points specifically to the season 22 finale, in which Owen saves a family during a catastrophic bridge collapse before reconciling with Teddy Altman (Kim Raver) and leaving Seattle for Paris.

— Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
As the pace of disruption continues to grow, the writing is on the wall for organizations still battling with bottlenecks, searching through spreadsheets, reconciling conflicting data or waiting on manual approvals before responding to global crises.

— Alex Saric, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026