configure

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You can configure the VPN to automatically connect whenever you’re online or have the app ask you whether or not to connect.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 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

In a new publication in Physical Review Letters, researchers in Amsterdam demonstrate a way to describe spin-boson systems and use this to efficiently configure quantum devices in a desired state.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2024

At some point this weekend, the plan is to configure the par-three 15th so it’s a 78-yard hole, which would be the shortest in U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2023

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