configuration
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Today, the airport’s configuration is too compact to accommodate many large private planes, so some A-listers—including Kim Kardashian and John Mayer—fly into Rifle Garfield County Airport, about 65 miles away from Aspen’s downtown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
After several years of development and testing in Texas, SpaceX began flying the rocket in its full configuration in 2023, deliberately following suborbital trajectories, which are safer and less challenging.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Once contraction begins, this network tightens inward and then returns to its original configuration.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
“Not an ideological configuration, but a practical one,” said Sims.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
The Rad Lab returned to the days of cut-and-try; any configuration that produced a stronger or sharper beam was incorporated into the standard, even if the experimenters could not figure out why it worked.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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 the quantum world, particles can exist in a superposition of states, meaning they can occupy multiple possible positions or configurations at the same time.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
At that time almost nothing was published about the possible three-dimensional configurations of a nucleic- acid molecule.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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Word Generation Science - Introductory Chemistry Concepts
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Engineering - Introductory
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