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configure

[kuhn-fig-yer] / kənˈfɪg jər /


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Losing your device or access to it entirely can also make it tricky to configure passkeys.

From BBC Apr. 24, 2026

To configure an ExpressVPN connection on your router, you have three options:

From Salon Mar. 13, 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

Parents also have tools, including the ability to configure settings on streaming accounts to try to shield children from inappropriate content.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 10, 2025

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

The Genesis GV70 boasts active-noise cancellation in the cabin and a fingerprint scanner that configures the car for whoever is behind the wheel.

From Seattle Times Jan. 22, 2024

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

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

“Then those adjustments would be brought back to the product team and configured so that every customer could benefit from that innovation in the field.”

From MarketWatch Apr. 4, 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

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

“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

Yvonne began designing and configuring Día de Muertos ofrendas when she needed a place to mourn after her nephew and best friend passed away in 1997.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2022

The idea is to get them painlessly over the biggest hump in migrating to Linux, which is initially installing and configuring it for the user's machine.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.




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