initialize
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The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were initialize and tantalize.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
Do not initialize your NAS, as this will erase your data.
From The Verge ● Feb. 22, 2022
Researchers think they can sidestep that problem if they can initialize all the qubits in their computer in particular “magic states” that, more or less, do half the work of the problematic gates.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 9, 2020
The navigation system seemed to take forever to initialize when I started the vehicle.
From Forbes ● Nov. 19, 2012
You can use the arrow keys to select the menu items to initialize or to mount disk partitions if you have any more partitions to set up.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John
Essentially a program, it initializes a multistep session of identifying, researching and fact-checking a set of claims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
"Using a combination of biochemical and computational methods, we now know the structure of the bitter taste receptor TAS2R14 and the mechanisms that initializes the sensation of bitter taste in our tongues."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024
Like many on Wall Street, he initializes his vacation plans with a search on Google.
From Time Magazine Archive
However, the ADS was not functional at that moment due to the computer unit not having been initialized, and should not have been attempted to be activated.
From The Verge ● Aug. 4, 2022
When the qubits are initialized in superposition states, the action of this gate entangles the ions, making it a fundamental operation for the construction of an arbitrary quantum computation among many ions.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 9, 2012
You can initialize a Linux partition, or alternately you can mount a previously initialized one.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John
"This compiler normally locates initialized data in the data segment, but if you mutter the right incantation they will be forced into text space."
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
You will be offered the choice to scan the disk partition for bad blocks, as you were when you initialized the swap partition.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John
“Free trade is the way of the future,” Mr. Bush announced in San Antonio at an initializing ceremony for Nafta in 1992.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2018
The 4th Down Bot had barely finished initializing its new solenoid when the Steelers, trailing 32-27, kicked on fourth-and-goal at the Seattle 3 late in the fourth quarter.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2015
This implies both finding the suitable model and initializing it to the given external reality 22.
From The Brain, A Decoded Enigma by Moisa, Dorin Teodor
You have the choice of initializing and activating a new swap partition, activating a previously-initialized one, or doing without a swap partition.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John
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