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Recent Examples of tune out
Shutdown talk is nowhere on Wall Street, which gets less animated by local economy stories anyway and has also started to tune out Washington chaos — for better or worse.
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Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Over time, team members tune out their words and begin to question the sincerity of their actions.
—Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The music isn't too loud to tune out and the chairs are comfortable.
—Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Headphones and Bluetooth speakers got multiple recommendations as well, for the sake of distraction and tuning out hospital background noise.
—Sara Coughlin, SELF, 12 Aug. 2025
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Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Over time, team members tune out their words and begin to question the sincerity of their actions.
—Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The music isn't too loud to tune out and the chairs are comfortable.
—Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Headphones and Bluetooth speakers got multiple recommendations as well, for the sake of distraction and tuning out hospital background noise.
—Sara Coughlin, SELF, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tune out
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The worst of the storm is expected to have passed over Jamaica by Wednesday morning.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Oct. 2025
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Democrats argue legislation to reopen the government should also extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies and reverse Republicans’ Medicaid cuts passed over the summer.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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Before long, Norm had a crew — The Invisibles— a rowdy group of personified conditions who blow off steam at a biker bar.—
David Soren,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
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One of those women had already had the door of her home blown off while Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem watched.—
Nicole Foy,
ProPublica,
18 Oct. 2025
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Over the summer the FDA convened a panel on the safety of certain antidepressants in pregnancy that tried to cast doubt on this research, ignoring the real harms of not treating depression or anxiety for pregnant people themselves and for their fetuses.—
Tanya Lewis,
Scientific American,
23 Oct. 2025
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But the writers, like Noah and Joanne, are ignoring that fundamental fork in the road in favor of inane high jinks from the couple and their increasingly irksome friends and family.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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The Raine family’s lawyers will have to prove that OpenAI was aware of the risks posed by ChatGPT and disregarded them.—
Nikita Ostrovsky,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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This time, the environmental advocacy group contended that San Diego’s supplemental analysis of the visual impacts of taller buildings, prepared in advance of the 2022 ballot measure, disregarded other consequential environmental factors.—
Jennifer Van Grove,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Oct. 2025
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The head coach has seen firsthand what his former quarterback can do when he's slighted.—
Jordan Sigler,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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Jones, again, slighted the punt coverage with a 61-yard return to the Carolina 14-yard line.—
Mike Kaye
September 28,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Tune out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tune%20out. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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