configuration
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Skytraders deputy chief executive Duncan Mackay told the Australian newspaper the plane had undergone a complete refit into a specialised medevac configuration within 24 hours of the call.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
But the payoff is substantial: With 15,000 to 20,000 seats depending on the configuration, a single night can gross up to $3 million in ticket sales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
“We don’t have a firm configuration right now,” he said during an interview Sunday ahead of the Farnborough International Airshow outside London.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Their models project a reusable payload of about 115 tonnes to low Earth orbit, with as much as 188 tonnes possible in an expendable configuration.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
According to this theory, there are either many different universes or many different regions of a single universe, each with its own initial configuration and, perhaps, with its own set of laws of science.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
The capacity to arrange shapes and lines in organized configurations may represent an important sign of emerging abstract thought, a major development in the evolution of human cognition.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
"To some degree, our evaluation design choices and specific configurations enabled the behaviour," it said, while noting its unexpected "signs of novel, potentially deceptive behaviours".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
The reason why LA28 isn’t selling individual seats right now is because venue configurations are still ongoing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
The Luce is the first Ferrari with five seats—an option ruled out by the axle in its traditional powertrain configurations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
That close—twenty yards — and I could see the delicate latticework of the leaves, the texture of the soil, the browned needles beneath the pines, the configurations of geology and human history.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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