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tune out
verb
informal, to cease to take an interest (in) or pay attention (to)
many people had tuned out of politics
Idioms and Phrases
Adjust a receiver so as not to receive a signal, as in Let's tune out all this interference . [Early 1900s]
Dissociate oneself from one's surroundings; also, disregard, ignore. For example, The average reader, used to seeing lots of color images, tunes out when confronted with big blocks of text , or Some mothers are expert at tuning out the children's whining and quarreling . [1920s] For an antonym, see tune in .
Example Sentences
“You need to start from scratch with the basics and tune out all the noise,” Murdoch said.
Even though he is not particularly concerned about his own financial security, it is difficult to tune out the overall uncertainty surrounding him.
“We believe that investors have become conditioned to tune out the noise from the political drama.”
The whole point of picking off precisely those who are either too vulnerable to fight back, or too famous to warrant your concern, or too unpopular for you to do anything but shrug, is that it leaves ample space for everyone to be exhausted, to tune out, to stare down at the table.
They are under-performing and also maybe bought a few players in a bit of panic at the end of the transfer window - Jadon Sancho, Harvey Elliott and Victor Lindelof all joined on deadline day - but Emery will get a tune out of his team sooner or later.
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