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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
Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2025
One suggestion could be to adjust Section 181 of the US tax code which allows accelerated deductions for film and TV production.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Acutis used his coding skills to spread the faith online and died at 15 years old from cancer.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Signal, an end-to-end encrypted messaging application, has a desktop app that connects to a user's mobile device through a unique QR code.
—Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2025
One suggestion could be to adjust Section 181 of the US tax code which allows accelerated deductions for film and TV production.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
Ryan Coogler’s new horror-thriller Sinners has become both a box office juggernaut and the center of a heated media debate, after several outlets came under fire for what many social media users described as biased and coded coverage of the film’s success.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Acutis used his coding skills to spread the faith online and died at 15 years old from cancer.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
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The state's Senate approved the proposal, which is modeled after Arizona’s law, on April 1.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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What To Know The bill passed a 7-2 vote in the state Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee, the first step to becoming law.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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He’s even expressed willingness to reform Ecuador’s constitution — potentially allowing for the formal return of a US military presence, like the one that existed from 1999 to 2009 at the now-defunct Manta Air Base.—
David Culver,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2025
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Certainly the extraordinary performance of the U.S. economy since ratification of the constitution makes a strong argument for this structure of government.—
Bill Conerly,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Spend 10-15 seconds savoring each of the positive aspects of the experience so it can be encoded into your nervous system.—
Katy Bowman,
NPR,
13 Apr. 2025
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Only in such a number could Moore encode the data of an infinitely long Turing tape.—
Charlie Wood,
Wired News,
6 Apr. 2025
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This doesn’t typically apply to dedicated password manager extensions, which encrypt your data independently and don’t rely on browser storage.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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That’s what drives decisions—from introducing stronger password recovery options and implementing secure sharing to strengthening master password protections and encrypting sensitive data fields.—
Christofer Hoff,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Code.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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