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ciphering

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verb

present participle of cipher

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ciphering
Noun
  • The team’s calculations showed that the typical mass of the heavy neutrinos and the energy released from knot collapse led to the universe reheating to 100 GeV.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Through several calculations of length, width, and depth, Manzur achieves these different sizes while guaranteeing that each basin can hold an equivalent volume of water.
    Mario Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Audiences might enjoy this cinematic sleight of hand, but the key characters are such single-minded, calculating individuals that the real magic would be to find any heart in this tale.
    Kirk Honeycutt, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Such incidents could potentially occur due to things such as an error in calculating the takeoff weights or a faulty maneuver by the pilots, as well, Corriere della Sera noted.
    Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Simple arithmetic such as 355/113 could be calculated in place by selecting the text and pressing USE FRONT-CALC (Control-G), which yields the answer with a dotted underline to indicate the result of a computation.
    Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The arithmetic of the French National Assembly – the key hurdle to getting any budget passed – hasn’t changed with a new prime minister.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When a group has been together for so long, there can be a risk of other teams ‘figuring you out’.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Just figuring the run right there, Blake’s pitched some of the biggest outs, innings in the postseason for us.
    Gabe Smallson, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Florida’s chief financial officer brought his tax-cut campaign to Miami on Thursday, using some basic math to insist the city spends too much on salaries and services.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Other farm animals were inside a school, eating the math books.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Particularly, Tursa’s computing power was key to the rapid fine-tuning of the 650-million-parameter model.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Managing this amount of data is extremely difficult and requires massive amounts of computing power, but the information is becoming more accurate every day as the number of sightings increase.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • From computation to creation In one recent demonstration, an autonomous lab produced 41 new compounds in 17 days, all first proposed by AI.
    Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Similarly, in 2024, Google’s 105-qubit Willow chip performed a benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take Frontier, the fastest supercomputer then, 10 septillion (or 1025) years.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Ciphering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ciphering. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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