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Recent Examples of tunes
Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2026
Set up your streaming ahead of time and get caught up on Bad Bunny's best tunes before his halftime performance.
—Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
Her program will feature dance tunes, ballads and airs.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
There is quite a bit of variability to Theon’s tuning and performance, from suspension damping and ride height to wheel/tire combinations and of course engine tunes.
—Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 4 Feb. 2026
But this is a higher-risk method, especially as many skaters prefer to remix and edit tunes as opposed to gliding to the beat of one unified song.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2026
Someone cue the disco tunes, because Serena Williams is ready to boogie.
—Christina Perrier, InStyle, 3 Feb. 2026
The kids are sure to love the life-size puppets and jamming tunes.
—Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Feb. 2026
The numbers show how passionate fans feel about these tunes, whose haunting vibe leads people to listen to them on repeat.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
For progressives, the undisputed master of the viral protest song is the thirty-three-year-old folksinger Jesse Welles, who makes videos of himself standing in a field, singing clever miniature tunes about the hypocrisies of the health-care industry, tech billionaires, ICE.
—Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2026
Set up your streaming ahead of time and get caught up on Bad Bunny's best tunes before his halftime performance.
—Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
Her program will feature dance tunes, ballads and airs.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
There is quite a bit of variability to Theon’s tuning and performance, from suspension damping and ride height to wheel/tire combinations and of course engine tunes.
—Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 4 Feb. 2026
But this is a higher-risk method, especially as many skaters prefer to remix and edit tunes as opposed to gliding to the beat of one unified song.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2026
Someone cue the disco tunes, because Serena Williams is ready to boogie.
—Christina Perrier, InStyle, 3 Feb. 2026
The kids are sure to love the life-size puppets and jamming tunes.
—Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Feb. 2026
The numbers show how passionate fans feel about these tunes, whose haunting vibe leads people to listen to them on repeat.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tunes
Noun
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The choral elements on the record shine most vividly on the title track, which features polyphonic swells of voices humming melodies, overtaking the piano, dropping and then rising again.—
Hanif Abdurraqib,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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His first experiments at 170 BPM took the form of ambient music, a new way to frame his signature melodies and pads removed from the 4/4 thump of techno and house.—
Andrew Ryce,
Pitchfork,
6 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data.—
Tom Warren,
The Verge,
29 Jan. 2026
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Eco effort The hotel adheres to Hyatt’s global standards for sustainability, with robust waste and recycling initiatives, extensive energy and water recycling programs, and the use of World of Hyatt digital keys through your phone, to reduce the number of plastic room keys in use.—
Todd Plummer,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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And since leaving prison in early January, the preacher has wasted no time in spreading his gospel in a tranche of new songs published on his social media platforms.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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Unlike many of his Latin pop predecessors, who released songs in English in hopes of broadening their audience, the singer has not recorded any full-length English material across his six studio albums.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
5 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Fiction does not compensate for a lack of information but makes room for—and adapts itself to—the formal possibilities and modes of engagement opened by other genres.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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The team says that apart from proving the hardware works in space, these results offer insights into how the human brain adapts to the void.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Feb. 2026
Verb
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In warehouses and stores, the system coordinates robots to maximize uptime and throughput.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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Gabbard coordinates the work of the nation's 18 intelligence agencies.—
DAVID KLEPPER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Tunes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tunes. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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