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as in accordance
a state of consistency
your negative assessment of the restaurant seems to be in tune with the opinions of the critics
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as in to adapt
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Recent Examples of tune
Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2025
As the tune played repeatedly, Martindale phoned the singer’s mom to ask if the soon-to-be-King of Rock and Roll could come down to the station.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 11 Apr. 2025
The idea is that because speech has different natural rhythms among its syllables and words, priming your brain to tune into this pattern could help your brain process rhythmic language better.
—New Atlas, 9 Apr. 2025
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Noun
The Texas singer-songwriter had just finished a gig down the street and decided to get up and sing a tune.
—Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2025
As the tune played repeatedly, Martindale phoned the singer’s mom to ask if the soon-to-be-King of Rock and Roll could come down to the station.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
Verb
Malone seemed to realize his players were tuning him out, but his own exasperation peaked on March 21 after a loss to the Portland Trail Blazers.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 11 Apr. 2025
The idea is that because speech has different natural rhythms among its syllables and words, priming your brain to tune into this pattern could help your brain process rhythmic language better.
—New Atlas, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tune
Noun
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Wilson began the performance by playing the song’s familiar melody on his guitar before wrapping the anthem in baritone vocal notes.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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When the melody feels right and is looping in my mind, or playing and singing dummy vocals over and over, certain words start to appear.—
Frank DiGiacomo,
Billboard,
24 Apr. 2025
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The letter to Johnson and Grassley, sent in accordance with the War Powers Resolution, affirmed the president's intent to continue operations until the Houthi threat is neutralized, emphasizing his constitutional authority to defend U.S. interests and calling on Congress for continued support.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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Built in accordance with Japanese postwar aspirations, the house had two floors and three bedrooms, yet felt cramped and overstuffed.—
Elif Batuman,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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The bill by Republican Rep. David Faulkner would establish an alert system, similar to the Amber Alert system, that would issue a notice to the public when there's been an unprovoked shark attack in the vicinity.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2025
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Then there was the problem of whether there would be enough demand to support another limestone quarry in the vicinity.—
Peter J Reilly,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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The digital marketing industry seems to reinvent itself every time new tech develops — which requires marketing consultants to adapt right alongside the revolving door of trends.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2025
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Being able to adapt to change, focus on what’s relevant, switch between tasks, manage conflict, and recognize systems that may be different are all important aspects of the answer to this question.—
Pia Lauritzen,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention.—
Lawrence Burney,
Pitchfork,
18 Apr. 2025
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The song, which was featured on Post Malone’s country album F-1 Trillion, was also No. 1 on Billboard‘s 2024 Songs of the Summer chart.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
18 Apr. 2025
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His neighborhood was similar to my childhood South Shore neighborhood—homeowners, working class and poor people living among each other in harmony and hijinks.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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Runaway June explored harmonies as the members shaped the melody, pointedly emphasizing the trio’s signature.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
22 Apr. 2025
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Officers picked up a child answering to Dylan in the Lykins neighborhood of east Kansas City around 6 p.m., near the intersection of Independence and Drury avenues, according to a KCPD spokesperson.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
15 Apr. 2025
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Rubble littered a street as rescuers carried one person away from the site, which the rebels said was a ceramics factory in the Bani Matar neighborhood of Sanaa, the capital.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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On the first day of his second term, Trump issued executive orders to withdraw from the UN Paris climate accord and the World Health Organization and imposed a 90-day pause on all delivery of U.S. foreign aid.—
Ngaire Woods,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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That years-long dispute eventually ended in 2020, when Trump signed the Phase-1 trade accord that mandated Beijing to purchase tens of billions of dollars in additional U.S. products (Beijing didn't keep to the terms, due in part to the global COVID-19 pandemic).—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Tune.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tune. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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