tune out

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Recent Examples of tune out Other proper nouns, like the Darkhold, can be safely tuned out. Alison Herman, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024 Trump’s die-hards have proven their ability to tune out inconvenient hassles, while Democrats tend to be intractable when turned into true-believers. Philip Elliott, TIME, 12 Sep. 2024 Ads make my bosses happy but make my audience tune out. Ash Parrish, The Verge, 31 Aug. 2024 But make every single show, from The Acolyte to True Detective: Night Country a piece of political propaganda, where a narrow political worldview somehow supersedes the very fundamentals of what makes great entertainment or art, and people will tune out. Erik Kain, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for tune out 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tune out
Verb
  • Transportation planners can improve roadway safety and increase habitat connectivity for wildlife by creating special critter byways—for mammals, birds, insects and other creatures—to pass over, under and across roads away from vehicles.
    Noël Fletcher, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Women continue to face many obstacles at work, including getting passed over for leadership positions.
    Owen Tripp, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Though there has been some rainfall in the Bay Area in the last several weeks, the amount was minimal and winds quickly followed, blowing off much of the moisture.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • For much of Saturday’s 26-21 loss to Washington, as rain fell in sheets and a freezing wind blew off Lake Washington, Lincoln Riley stuck stubbornly with his gut, testing the nation’s No. 1 pass defense by throwing into a downpour with a struggling quarterback.
    Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Tech company CEOs who largely sat on the sidelines for the presidential election sent their congratulations Wednesday to President-elect Donald Trump, ignoring Trump’s history of threats against some of them and joining their peer Elon Musk in welcoming Trump back to power.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Those, contrary to the plan, can safely be ignored, and are.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Federal and state regulators say that SpaceX has disregarded environmental rules at its launch site in South Texas, violating the Clean Water Act by releasing industrial wastewater during launches.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In tandem with pursuing new initiatives involving , the SEC has disregarded and almost completely forgotten its mission of facilitating capital formation.
    John Berlau, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Arab Americans are one voting bloc that’s used to being slighted by both major parties.
    Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • In this case, the full-band parts of the concert have no reason to be slighted if someone feels compelled to single out Hart’s section as primo.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Aug. 2024

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“Tune out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tune%20out. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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