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[kuhn-fig-yer] / kənˈfɪg jər /


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After considering how he would configure an important device for their research, he delivered his verdict: “completely perfect.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Losing your device or access to it entirely can also make it tricky to configure passkeys.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

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

How did you configure the visual language for “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

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

The Genesis GV70 boasts active-noise cancellation in the cabin and a fingerprint scanner that configures the car for whoever is behind the wheel.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

GoBubble is a company that configures AI software to act as a filter to stop discriminatory comments from being seen by a social media user.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

Noe installs and configures software on home computers.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020

The family unit, as Harris configures it, was matriarchal—“Shyamala and the girls.”

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019

But qua becoming, and irrespective of all special aspects with which it historically configures itself, the spirit has already a content of its own, which cannot be absent from any of its historical configurations.

From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile

They can also be misconfigurations -- for instance, if someone has used the same password for multiple services, or hasn't configured a database properly.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Taalas says running a million tokens on the HC1 would cost 0.75 cents, against 3.79 cents on an Nvidia GPU configured to serve as many users at once as possible.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

The models, which included GPT-5.6 Sol, were configured for evaluation to be less likely to refuse hacking commands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

This option, if carefully configured, could also allow the sport to keep the operation of the boost and overtaking modes made possible by the electrical elements much as they are now.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

The incentives of the real-estate business, as currently configured, plainly encourage some agents to act against the best interests of their customers.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

The new warehouses, totaling more than 7 million square feet, will offer services including assembling and configuring equipment in data-center racks and transporting the racks to data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

If the thought of configuring a VPN makes you break out in a cold sweat, this one’s for you.

From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2026

The team's chief innovation is configuring their "neutral atom array" to be able to dynamically change its layout by moving and connecting atoms -- this is called "entangling" in physics parlance -- mid-computation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2023

Apple, Google and Samsung all have instructions on their sites for configuring cloud backup on their gear.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2023

A user "enables" a category in a filtering program by configuring the program to block all of the Web pages listed in that category.

From Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling by United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Pennsylvania


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