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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
Ben Christopher, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
The city has maintained strict lighting codes ever since, with streetlights and public lighting designed to protect night-sky visibility.
—Megan Eaves, Outside, 20 Feb. 2026
Mike Dobuski, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2026
Trump’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, led by Mehmet Oz, also proposed to restrict further how insurers can code the illnesses of their Medicare Advantage enrollees.
—Bob Herman, STAT, 26 Jan. 2026
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Noun
That safety-minded code is meant to provide residents with multiple escape routes in a fire.
—Ben Christopher, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
The city has maintained strict lighting codes ever since, with streetlights and public lighting designed to protect night-sky visibility.
—Megan Eaves, Outside, 20 Feb. 2026
Verb
In late January, Matt Schlicht, a tech commentator and CEO of e-commerce company Octane, instructed his agent to code a website where AI programs can talk with one another.
—Mike Dobuski, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2026
Trump’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, led by Mehmet Oz, also proposed to restrict further how insurers can code the illnesses of their Medicare Advantage enrollees.
—Bob Herman, STAT, 26 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for code
Noun
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The bank would only speak hypothetically about when the bank closes accounts and its reasons for closing accounts, citing bank privacy laws.—
Ken Sweet,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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One new state law enacted in 2024 set requirements for oil and gas companies to plug certain percentages of their idle wells each year — between 5% and 15% each year at first, but larger shares after 2027.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The real challenge from AI will likely emerge in the weeks and months ahead as firms cipher through Judge Mehta’s enforcement of behavioral requirements.—
Tor Constantino,
Forbes.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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An Enigma ciphering machine that was donated to the museum by telecommunications company SIRTI.Photo: Cantalupi, Pavia One of the artifacts from SIRTI collection was a German ciphering machine used in World War II, an Enigma, Savini says.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
11 Feb. 2020
Noun
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By taking those liberties from citizens on the basis of ancestry, the government’s application of the constitution, in the eyes of the resisters, was inconsistent with those fundamental principles and inalienable rights.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
19 Feb. 2026
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According to the ancient texts, distress and diseases (like infertility) occur when our doshas—the body’s three basic constitutions—fall out of harmony.—
Annie Daly,
Vogue,
19 Feb. 2026
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That matters because spin is a fundamental property of electrons and can be used to encode and transmit information.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Feb. 2026
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Huge amounts of data could be archived in a compact format for millennia, by using lasers to encode that data into glass.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
18 Feb. 2026
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The experts also uploaded proofs of the solutions but encrypted them.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
9 Feb. 2026
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These services encrypt your data on your device before it is uploaded, which means the provider cannot read it or unlock it later.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Code.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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