configure
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You can configure the VPN to automatically connect whenever you’re online or have the app ask you whether or not to connect.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
The archbishop was free to configure it as a workplace, to choose its decorative furnishings and its degree of illumination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
Depending on how Slot chooses to configure the full-back roles this summer, with a potential replacement for Robertson also needed, there are a few players worth considering for Liverpool.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2025
How did you configure the visual language for “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024
Guys like Dr. Strayer were hired to figure out how to configure networks and displays so that the information was useful and life- preserving—not overwhelming and deadly.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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GoBubble is a company that configures AI software to act as a filter to stop discriminatory comments from being seen by a social media user.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
Ryanair configures its MAX 8-200s with 197 seats.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
Noe installs and configures software on home computers.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
The family unit, as Harris configures it, was matriarchal—“Shyamala and the girls.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
But qua becoming, and irrespective of all special aspects with which it historically configures itself, the spirit has already a content of its own, which cannot be absent from any of its historical configurations.
From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni
High Park Farm also looms large in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Exhibit, with a whole section configured to look like the inside of their farmhouse: wood paneling, quaint lighting, faux windows.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
Qantas said it would take delivery of 12 aircraft in total, each configured with 238 seats across four cabins.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
The airline will add 47 Boeing 787-9s, 33 of which will be configured with additional premium seats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
“Social media, as it’s configured today, is not safe for young people under 16,” he said.”Instead, it’s been designed to maximize view time, keeping kids glued to a screen with little regard for their well-being.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
The incentives of the real-estate business, as currently configured, plainly encourage some agents to act against the best interests of their customers.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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Shohei Ohtani returned to Dodgers camp Monday morning, and Roberts plans to have a conversation with him soon about configuring his throwing plan leading up to regular season play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
“We tried configuring an off-the-shelf tool for our cycle. Too many fields we don’t need, missing the ones we do…So I just built what we needed. Took a night and a morning,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
If the thought of configuring a VPN makes you break out in a cold sweat, this one’s for you.
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2026
The team's chief innovation is configuring their "neutral atom array" to be able to dynamically change its layout by moving and connecting atoms -- this is called "entangling" in physics parlance -- mid-computation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2023
A user "enables" a category in a filtering program by configuring the program to block all of the Web pages listed in that category.
From Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling by United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Pennsylvania
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