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
Four larger cylinders were positioned on a rotating carousel in a configuration resembling four candlesticks on an old-fashioned chandelier.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
“Not an ideological configuration, but a practical one,” said Sims.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
They batted it back and forth, debating, refining, and quickly working out what would come to be known as the Teller-Ulam configuration.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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
A posse of extras clad in white jumpsuits and little black aprons would occasionally flood the set, tidying up and moving the furniture into new configurations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“By combining applied AI with decades of sophisticated business rules, regulatory compliance, security models, data models and customer configurations, we enable customers to continuously realize AI’s value,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
When the packinghouse strike ended, the pre-strike configurations settled back into place.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
Vocabulary lists containing configuration
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