How to Use encode in a Sentence

encode

verb
  • Credit cards are encoded with cardholder information.
  • When the team deleted the genes that encode key parts of the tailocin, the killing went away.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 June 2024
  • The solution is to encode the special control of a chip to be found in a car.
    The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
  • There’s a bit of pressure to encode that song with advice or wisdom, which was kind of a neat thing.
    Will Schube, GQ, 7 Apr. 2018
  • We are encoded with the belief that death is the mother of beauty.
    Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2017
  • These cells encoded how long the animal rested in front of the door.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2025
  • The mass of the two black holes could also be encoded into the caustic curve.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • In this view, we must have been somehow encoded in the first moments of the universe.
    Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • That means the qubit is encoded in the amplitude of the microwave field.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The three lowest frequencies are used to encode language as a sound wave.
    National Geographic, 16 May 2018
  • So, some of the grammatical rules of math are about encoding deep truths.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2024
  • For now, the patches can only encode a handful of simple shapes.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2019
  • After all, what’s best in us is at least as deeply imprinted and encoded as what’s worst in us.
    Arianna Huffington, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Devices can encode 0s and 1s in those domains.
    IEEE Spectrum, 12 Jan. 2021
  • The answer lies in the silent message encoded in the concrete.
    Yunus Emre Tozal, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
  • That answer is encoded in the offer.
    George Kapernaros, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • This indicates that the process is likely encoded in the slime’s biomolecules.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
  • As one species changes, the other may change in response, and these changes can even become encoded in their genes.
    Jacob S. Suissa, The Conversation, 20 June 2024
  • Take, for example, the gene that encodes the protein called tubulin.
    Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The filter won’t detect the same pattern in the data or encode the same feature map.
    Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2020
  • When input in the form of light flows into the chip, the output light encodes data from complex tasks.
    IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2024
  • But the images encode all the dark matter between the far-off object and the telescope.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Data can be encoded in both the frequency and depth of these spectral holes.
    Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Several are thought to encode proteins that help the virus evade the immune system.
    Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 23 June 2020
  • The debate over whether to encode the transmissions is playing out across the country.
    Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Sandoval argues that each of Altar Q’s four sides encodes one such date.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Over time, a partner’s scent can become encoded as a signal of safety.
    Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2026
  • Incentives are way too far in the future to give you that all-important shot of dopamine that encodes the new habit.
    Bj Fogg, Time, 30 Dec. 2019
  • These tiny changes in distance encode a tremendous amount of information about their source.
    Chad Hanna, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But even within the parts of genes that encode proteins, the precise sequence shouldn't matter all that much.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 June 2022

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