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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
Boutayna Chokrane, Wired News, 30 May 2025
Regarding future compensation changes, council members last week narrowly voted down a code amendment that would have given the power of adjusting nonunion pay ranges to the city manager.
—Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2025
Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 13 May 2025
The aspiring app developers of today no longer have to be fluent in coding.
—Angela Yang, NBC news, 13 May 2025
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Noun
For You Page, maybe sandwiched between a promo code for snail mucin and someone rendering beef tallow.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Wired News, 30 May 2025
Regarding future compensation changes, council members last week narrowly voted down a code amendment that would have given the power of adjusting nonunion pay ranges to the city manager.
—Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2025
Verb
Founders and engineers told me that with today’s AI products, many years of Ph.D. work would have been reduced to just one, and a day’s worth of coding could be done with a single prompt.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 13 May 2025
The aspiring app developers of today no longer have to be fluent in coding.
—Angela Yang, NBC news, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for code
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Sunday marks the first batch — 83, to be exact — to become law.—
Hannah Gaskill,
Baltimore Sun,
31 May 2025
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Earlier this month, Attorney General Todd Rokita sent a letter to the University of Notre Dame claiming its DEI policies may violate state and federal law.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
31 May 2025
Noun
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The constitution of the baseball had become a paramount topic in the sport as home runs kept flying out of stadiums all October.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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This lamentable record is spurring calls to amend the constitution from the current single five-year term to two terms, as well as perhaps holding parliamentary elections at the same time as presidential to avoid the executive and legislature being constantly at odds with each other.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
29 May 2025
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DSLRs and mirrorless cameras kept up with each other in terms of resolution, frame rates, color depth, and encoding quality as the years progressed, but mirrorless cameras took a huge lead in autofocus with the advent of on-sensor phase detection.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
20 May 2025
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Once nine of these gene clusters were identified, the DNA that would encode them was ordered and assembled into a single DNA molecule in yeast.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 May 2025
Verb
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Cloud platforms offer high availability, but if your data is encrypted by ransomware, synced copies just replicate the damage.—
Faizan Mustafa,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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Emails sent from Proton Mail accounts will be end-to-end encrypted.—
Chiara Eisner,
NPR,
21 May 2025
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“Code.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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