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- verb To
tune again.
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Examples
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Yet our mental response to music is remarkably adaptable; even a little study can "retune" the way the brain handles musical inputs.
Sunday morning edition M-mv 2004
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Yet our mental response to music is remarkably adaptable; even a little study can "retune" the way the brain handles musical inputs.
Archive 2004-11-01 M-mv 2004
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After a bout with my slush pile, or my requested manuscript pile I always have to read something to "retune" my ear.
It's not the end of the world...really Miss Snark 2005
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Yet our mental response to music is remarkably adaptable; even a little study can "retune" the way the brain handles musical inputs.
Black Market Kidneys » Everybody’s Linking ‘Fore the Weekend 2004
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To "retune" international level (s) of commitment to Africa;
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Red by contrast mostly animates: A room furnished completely in red in some psychiatric clinics helps depressed melancholics seriously in danger of committing suicide "retune," said Braem.
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Those are the moments when we need to retune our whole being.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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When a breeze blows over the strings of a guitar or violin, the musician must quickly retune it or face an annoying performance.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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Once the population demographics retune to the natural economy, however, then all slots are filled and productivity returns to the norm.
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Viola and cello retune their bottom strings in microtones, creating unexpected new chords, and the music is filled with trills, tremolandos and glissandos; the goal, Haas says, is "to glide freely through unknown aural landscapes".
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