as in to pass over
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Recent Examples of tune out
The word has become a signal to Trump fans to tune out distressing stories.
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Brian Stelter, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025
Shortly after the festival, a source close to the couple, who tied the knot in 2018, said that the pair is trying to tune out the noise.
—Michelle Lee, People.com, 13 May 2025
But readers who had obsessively tracked Trump’s four convulsive years in office were ready to tune out the relative normalcy of the Biden White House; the Post lost about three hundred thousand subscribers in the first year of Biden’s Presidency.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
Instead, try to tune out the noise, and stay grounded in your long-term financial plan which is designed to weather financial uncertainty.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tune out
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The grates were designed to stay in place when passed over by snowplows.—
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Handled in less than an hour by the prosecution and passed over to defense lawyer Westmoreland, the testimony from Richard comes after an opening week that saw often grueling and frequently harrowing testimony from a very, very pregnant Ventura.—
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After going into halftime tied with the Tatum-less Celtics, the Knicks had the doors blown off in the third quarter en route to a massive Boston win.—
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Watching pretty women getting their clothes blown off by a gun shapes how boys view the world and their place in it.—
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Get best-in-class reporting that's too important to ignore for just $2.50 $1 per month for 1 year.—
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The Wall Street Journal: Columbia University violated federal civil-rights law by ignoring the harassment of Jewish students by classmates, a government investigation found.—
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Under President Jair Bolsonaro, the prior government allowed for rapid deforestation in exchange for quick economic gain and disregarded the global push for climate action.—
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Scientific research must be funded, but integrity matters and UCSD must face real consequences for disregarding the law and failing its students.—
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Plus, an in-demand restaurant at capacity might not feel particularly motivated to go above and beyond to satisfy a diner who feels slighted by their subpar table.—
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Was slighting the defense to improve the offense worth risking a miss on several top defensive prospects?—
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“Tune out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tune%20out. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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