configuration
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When enough components eventually connect in the correct closed configuration, the resulting structure becomes stable enough to support further growth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
"The remaining resource configuration is considered unstable," the company said, warning that technical support communications could also be disrupted as teams assessed the damage.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
To support these capabilities, the top-tier configuration of the Surface Laptop Ultra boasts 128 gigabytes of unified memory and 1 petaflop of AI processing power.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
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
In other flies, Dobzhansky found that configuration had been fully inverted to C-B-A.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
This would mean that the early universe would have probably been very chaotic and irregular because there are many more chaotic and disordered configurations for the universe than there are smooth and ordered ones.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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Word Generation Science - Introductory Chemistry Concepts
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