as in law
a collection or system of rules of conduct
Hammurabi was an ancient king of Babylon with a famous code of laws the tax code
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Recent Examples of code
Anjana Susarla, The Conversation, 12 June 2026
For Bonhomme and Anthony, the imperative was to mix codes and break the rules.
—Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 12 May 2026
Cacioppo—who taught herself to code from books before writing Vanta’s first prototype—now oversees roughly 1,000 employees.
—Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Potential for harm The executive order expresses concern about AI systems that can discover software vulnerabilities and write malicious code to exploit them.
—Anjana Susarla, The Conversation, 12 June 2026
For Bonhomme and Anthony, the imperative was to mix codes and break the rules.
—Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
Verb
Programmers had to find ways to code equations as efficiently as possible.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 12 May 2026
Cacioppo—who taught herself to code from books before writing Vanta’s first prototype—now oversees roughly 1,000 employees.
—Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for code
Noun
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The model is currently studying law, history and society at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.—
Rachel DeSantis,
PEOPLE,
9 Dec. 2025
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Barrett and Kavanaugh seized on arguments made by the challengers that the president could order a complete trade embargo but not impose tariffs of even 1 percent under the emergency law.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2025
Verb
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How language encodes value judgments Such logic sets off alarm bells for anyone familiar with the history of eugenics, a movement that began with the idea of improving America by making its people healthier and quickly evolved to make judgments about who is and is not fit to participate in society.—
Megan Donelson,
The Conversation,
25 Aug. 2025
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The key thing to note is that being able to encode letters in a surface text is seen as a kind of divine power — something that goes beyond simple writing, into the realms of uber-cognition.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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The princess was one of King Vajiralongkorn’s three children who have formal titles and are eligible to take the throne under the constitution.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
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America has arrived at this point because of the massive erosion of what was a fiscal constitution.—
Steve H. Hanke,
Fortune,
11 June 2026
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Even the consumer-level codes that encrypt your online banking are so hard to break that every computer on the planet working together would need longer than the age of the universe to brute-force them apart.—
David M. Ewalt,
Scientific American,
19 May 2026
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Most cloud computing services encrypt data in transit and at rest.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Code.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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