attune
verb (used with object)
to bring into accord, harmony, or sympathetic relationship; adjust.
has attuned
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present perfectof attune (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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We’re not even at the prison yet, and already Bresson has attuned viewers to subtleties of space and sound.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2020
P-22 has attuned the people of Los Angeles to the unsustainable predicament of their lions.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
How doubly potent falls thy witching influence on him whose spirit passion has attuned to all the harmonies of earth, and made but too susceptible!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various
The man who has attuned himself to the moods and impulses of lyric poetry is a safe man in action.
From Literature for Children by Orton Lowe
