How to Use retune in a Sentence
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Hunt fiddled with the dial, trying to retune into the news.
— Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021 -
To account for the extra mass, the Multimatic spool-valve dampers have been retuned.
— Car and Driver, 31 May 2023 -
Banks retuned Ochs’ Stella Harmony acoustic guitar, began to run the dull side of the utensil up and down the strings, and there, on his mother’s back porch, Ochs learned how to play the blues.
— Chris Richards, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023 -
That is, can the researchers retune a sense of smell that evolution has perfected for the moth over hundreds of millions of years of evolution?
— Matt Simon, Wired, 4 Jan. 2021 -
And finally, Lindsey Lohan retuned our focus to this month's demand for self-care with a fresh face and a monochromic moment, eye mask and all.
— Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2024 -
The product will then retune the audio for the optimal, consistent bass levels.
— PCMAG, 26 Oct. 2022 -
During a rest in the slow movement, inaudibly to us, Harvey managed to retune his low C string for the unusual B-flat Schumann calls for.
— Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 31 July 2023 -
Those that rely on specialized senses can’t just retune their entire Umwelt.
— Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022 -
Her singing voice - which she's had to regain and retune from the damaging effects of dysphonia, the result of Lyme disease - is improving.
— Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023 -
Plus modes keep the engine running and retune the transmission for more immediate response.
— Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 7 Dec. 2020 -
In those who did not have a strong immune system response, the caner retuned within a year, according to results published earlier this year in the journal Nature.
— Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 29 Dec. 2023 -
Dodge retuned the Demon’s suspension to reduce front-end lift and to keep the rear tires planted under hard acceleration, but Kuniskis says the Demon 170 can still pull a wheelie.
— Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2023 -
The immune system, while not exactly depressed, is retuned to accommodate the fetus.
— Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023 -
Truth be known, the designers and engineers had only enough time to rearrange the front and rear sheetmetal, redo the interior trim, retune the suspension, and fiddle with the standard-equipment list.
— Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 10 Feb. 2023 -
Engineers have started to retune software at nuclear, hydro and fossil-fuel power stations that corrects small deviations from the 50-hertz frequency on which the grid hums, Mr. Kudrytskyi said.
— Joe Wallace, WSJ, 26 June 2022 -
Recognizing the need, relaxed rules for telehealth were written into many pandemic emergency orders, including in Minnesota, setting up a scramble to retune health care delivery.
— Glenn Howatt, Star Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
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