to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language
Alan Turing and the Bletchley Park mathematicians broke the Enigma code being used by the Nazis
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Recent Examples of broken
Adjective
As protesters attempted to stop the congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election, Babbitt was climbing through the broken window of a barricaded door to the Speaker’s Lobby when she was shot.—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2025 He was brought up for the minors on April 19, 2017 when Logan Forsythe suffered a broken toe when hit by a pitch.—Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
Verb
Buffalo’s season is all but over, and the team has looked broken.—Matthew Fairburn, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024 When the pot was broken, the gifts would spill out, acting as an offering to Huitzilopochtli.—Monica Navarro, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for broken
Grok 3: The wind howled through the jagged spires of the Frostfang Reaches, carrying a chill that bit deeper than any blade, and Ser Willem Cray felt its teeth in his bones.
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Kelsey Piper,
Vox,
12 May 2025
For the next hour or so, several of them will summit various routes along the cliff's steep, jagged face.
John’s piano and vocals, thankfully, were front and center, and did not suffer from uneven mixing.
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George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 May 2025
For instance, the automaker heard customers say the cup holders were hard to use because the front console was uneven and the cup holders weren’t flexible enough to hold different sizes and types of vessels.
After realizing the mother of three was awake, the intruder immediately bolted out out of the room.
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Vivian Kwarm,
New York Daily News,
17 Dec. 2024
An overdose episode — Kiana bolted barefoot from their rural home and went missing overnight in the woods — brought police attention and led to charges for child endangerment.
Stages 3 and 4, when the tumor has spread beyond the borders of the prostate, are considered more advanced and high risk.
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Luisel Ricks-Santi,
The Conversation,
20 May 2025
Measles was fully eliminated from the U.S. in 2000, according to the CDC, meaning the virus was not spreading within the country and new cases only came from people who contracted measles abroad and returned to the U.S.
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