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as in to crack
to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language
we deciphered the hidden message to find out when we were supposed to meet
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as in to understand
to have a clear idea of
a convoluted thriller, the plot of which I was never able to actually decipher
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Recent Examples of decipher
Binary neutron stars have long been considered the best bet for deciphering what lurks within.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Mar. 2026
Mainly focused on Evy (Nina Kiri), a skeptic caring for her ailing mother, Undertone features atmospheric, creepy sound design as Evy obsessively works to decipher the audio to horrifying results.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
These will allow us to decipher the nature of these mergers, marking a new era for multimessenger astronomy.
—Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
Using this method, researchers deciphered 79 additional inscriptions that had eluded scholars for generations.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2026
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Mar. 2026
Mainly focused on Evy (Nina Kiri), a skeptic caring for her ailing mother, Undertone features atmospheric, creepy sound design as Evy obsessively works to decipher the audio to horrifying results.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
These will allow us to decipher the nature of these mergers, marking a new era for multimessenger astronomy.
—Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
Using this method, researchers deciphered 79 additional inscriptions that had eluded scholars for generations.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decipher
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Press slices of sandwich bread into muffin tins and crack a whole egg into each.—
Victoria Spencer,
Martha Stewart,
3 Apr. 2026
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The numbers were burners, created only a day before the robbery, but logs of text messages and phone calls cracked open other leads and helped signal to police that the cases were related, according to documents reviewed by the Chronicle.—
Megan Cassidy,
San Francisco Chronicle,
3 Apr. 2026
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New transparency tools aim to help travelers understand disruptions and reduce frustration during delays and cancellations.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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And to have a guy like him who understands what the competition looks like on the floor, but is still here to kind of enhance the environment, help celebrate his teammates, give his teammates wisdom.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
1 Apr. 2026
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Most of all, No Kings peeps are being criticized for not having a ready answer as to whether protests can translate to midterm Blues.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
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Lisa Lee meditates on translating emotion.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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The judge assigned to Amin’s case was Iman Afshari, known in Tehran for his tough sentences—a reputation that led the European Union to place him on a blacklist, in January, for human-rights abuses.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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But Bella knows academic success isn't enough on its own.—
Robbie Owens,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Some Native American tribes refer to the April full moon as the breaking ice moon, the frog moon, the sucker moon and the budding moon of plants and shrubs.—
Hali Smith
March 31,
Idaho Statesman,
31 Mar. 2026
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How to break the car rental rage cycle Don't get mad.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
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Hard sci-fi, meanwhile, leans into the fact that life evolving on other planets, under different conditions, and across different stretches of time will almost certainly take on forms so different from ours that comprehending them would be like imagining a new color.—
Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
24 Mar. 2026
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The ability to read and comprehend is a foundational skill without which students are doomed to fail in mathematics and other subject matters.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
21 Mar. 2026
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Yet behind that shine lies a hiring world that often feels closed, complex, and difficult to decode.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
30 Mar. 2026
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The original bill, House Bill 253, would ban teachers from using three-cueing, a method of teaching that encourages students to guess unfamiliar words based on pictures or context clues, rather than decode the words phonetically.—
Keely Doll,
Louisville Courier Journal,
24 Mar. 2026
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Before the game, the Kings honored retiring captain Anze Kopitar with a ceremony recognizing his 20-year career.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
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The question, then, is not how to eliminate extraction, but how to recognize it as a metabolic relation.—
Manuela Moscoso,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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