configuration
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“Was it a faulty installation? Was it a faulty configuration? Or was it just a bad piece of router technology that we put into this system that propagated these errors?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
"Magnetic reconnection is when these field lines, in some specific configuration, break and reattach in a different configuration," Comisso said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
In a statement, the Welsh government said decisions about the configuration of local NHS services were the responsibility of the health board, "which is best placed to assess the needs of its population".
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
This shuttle stack sits in flight configuration, almost exactly as it would look on the cusp of liftoff, besides the yellow torque tubes lining the orbiter’s white shell like external ribs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
The configuration struck me as significant, in some way that was not entirely clear, everyone except for Bunny—“What’s going on?”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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Rather than following a single fixed arrangement, the quantum system repeatedly selected among several equally possible configurations.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
We see Pollock seeking alternatives to dripping, revisiting early configurations with generous gestures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The venue's official seated capacity is just under 74,000, but boxing configurations allow for even larger crowds.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The album is loaded with Anthrax trademarks — serrated, crunchy riffs, soaring lead vocals, bludgeoning beats, and scorching guitar — but there are also galactic noise effects, angular song structures and atypical chord configurations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
In this case the only difference between the regions would be their initial configurations and so the strong anthropic principle would reduce to the weak one.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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