setup

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Investors seem to like that setup, provided Galaxy can fill the rest of the space.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

In a typical cavity QED setup, each atom has a ground state and an excited state separated by a specific energy difference.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026

This is the precise setup Shin’s research was built to distrust.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

An ankle monitor, a meat slicer, some breast milk, and a package of live butterflies walk into an Uber...except this is not the setup to a joke.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

The fussy biochemical setup had taken weeks to perfect—except each time the ribosomes were caught, they crumbled and fell apart.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee