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Examples
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Your idea that the constitution needs to be religiously atune is just plain lunacy.
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I suspect that Obama is very atune to this trap and it would probably serve us well to keep the moral of this tale in mind.
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Barack needs atune-up already… Some whined and complained that the Secretary of State issue dragged on too long.
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And though the chorus failed altogether to dull the splashing of the rivulet and the babbling of the by-cut over a bed of stones, it seemed out of place in this particular spot; it aroused resentment against men who could not think of a lay more atune with the particular living, breathing objects around us.
Through Russia 2003
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The boy was somewhat spiritless and weary-looking; he could not be pronounced to be ill or really weak now, yet there was something wanting in him which ought to have been there, making him more atune to spring-time.
The Heiress of Wyvern Court Emilie Searchfield
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From the densest portions of the woods above the quarry a thrush sang -- all nature seemed atune with
Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers
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Not the dramatic abnegation indicated by the black dress, but the quiet harmony of a life atune.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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Then, as if by a preconcerted signal, the throats are all atune.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various
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She was strangely atune with the big pines and the fragrant shadows which lay beneath them.
The Seventh Noon Frederick Orin Bartlett
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With pulses atune to the morning's freshness, the girl galloped rapidly along the shell-road, the clattering thud of her horse's hoofs startling in the quiet.
Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple
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