in tune
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Also, in tune with.
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In agreement in musical pitch or intonation, as in It's hard to keep a violin in tune during damp weather , or Dave is always in tune with the other instrumentalists . [Mid-1400s]
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In concord or agreement, as in He was in tune with the times . [Late 1500s] The antonyms for both usages, dating from the same periods, are not in tune and out of tune , as in That trumpet's not in tune with the organ , or The lawyer was out of tune with his partners .
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"We know the liver is very much in tune with the body's circadian rhythms," he said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Meanwhile, volume breadth — the volume of advancing stocks minus the volume of declining stocks — has been more in tune with the market rally because of the heavy volume in those AI-related stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
"When you're an anxious person, especially with health anxiety, you're so much more in tune with your body," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Set on the home front in Massachusetts, this is a Civil War novel—the patriarch is a Union chaplain—and a work of gently delivered moral lessons in tune with Alcott’s Transcendentalist education.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
And it was also here, unfortunately, that the Mud People were most in tune with magic, which resulted in a far higher People-sighting rate than you got anywhere else on the planet.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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