configure
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SpaceX has been given a Nasa contract to configure the Ship into a lander that will eventually take astronauts down to the lunar surface.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 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
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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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 Giovanni Gentile
“Edinburgh was uniquely configured to operate as a nursery for the nascent discipline,” Ms. Fitzharris explains, partly because of the number of serious crimes tried in the city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
All the while, there was the outstanding issue of the city paying back Hollywood Park for all those improvements, but that arrangement was configured to ensure Inglewood could do so without going into the red.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
They can also be misconfigurations -- for instance, if someone has used the same password for multiple services, or hasn't configured a database properly.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
The stage is 38-foot long, and can be configured for both "in the round" and more traditional front-facing shows, while the dressing rooms are kitted out with en-suite showers and dedicated costume storage areas.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 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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“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
If you don't want this, read about configuring inetd and the file /etc/services.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by John Goerzen
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