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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mistune . - adjective Incorrectly
tuned
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Examples
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To his ears, the words sounded like mistuned subspace radio through an ion storm.
The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students) 2010
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Superb direction creates proper paranoia where traffic jams and mistuned radios become highly sinister; while Jim Carrey demonstrates comic timing without his trademark exaggeration and clowning, leading to a spot-on performance and a genuinely likeable character.
What is human? What is real? Sci-Fi Gene 2009
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Superb direction creates proper paranoia where traffic jams and mistuned radios become highly sinister; while Jim Carrey demonstrates comic timing without his trademark exaggeration and clowning, leading to a spot-on performance and a genuinely likeable character.
Archive 2009-01-01 Sci-Fi Gene 2009
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In the second half of the story, things take a Twilight Zone turn when Johnny, whose mistuned radio picks up the suicide music chosen by his long-dead friend, is given a chance to go back in time and change his present - but not before being faced with some repressed secrets revealed in some welcome plot twists.
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Accordingly, the bell only changed to the final and impatient chime when they crossed the stile; and “rang in,” that is, concluded its mistuned summons, when they had entered the
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Accordingly, the bell only changed to the final and impatient chime when they crossed the stile; and ` ` rang in, '' that is, concluded its mistuned summons, when they had entered the
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Accordingly, the bell only changed to the final and impatient chime when they crossed the stile; and "rang in," that is, concluded its mistuned summons, when they had entered the Duke's seat, in the little kirk, where the whole party arranged themselves, with Duncan at their head, excepting
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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The sets were hard to tune, the images were blurry, and people's faces were often shades of green or purple, depending on how mistuned the set was.
Maximum PC all RSS Feed David Gerrold 2010
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The pitch is at its most tantalizing when deliberately mistuned, creating close, trilling undulations that can be as opalescent as a string of tiny pearls or as phlegmy as Louis Armstrong's voice.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ELISSA POOLE 2010
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Working with high-volume, server-side applications, I often come across performance issues due to mistuned Java virtual machines.
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