Example Sentences

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And second, the people who had configured this machine…had made a mistake.

From Scientific American • Oct. 12, 2023

Lorenzo tried fiddling with his company-issued computer’s settings so that it wouldn’t go to sleep so quickly, but the IT department had configured the devices so that the sleep settings couldn’t be changed.

From Slate • Dec. 3, 2021

That’s because Rayow had configured the program so I couldn’t “pretest” my way out of modules with which I was already familiar.

From Slate • May 23, 2017

Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger had configured the war to end, they hoped, in "peace with honor," or anyway to have the battle "Vietnamized," the allied cause assumed by South Vietnamese forces.

From Time Magazine Archive