as in law
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
M. Nolan Gray, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
The Legislature now has less than a month to figure out how to comply with a state law to stop using QR codes to count ballots.
—Adam Beam, AJC.com, 13 Mar. 2026
Marlene Belfort, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2026
The Puerto Rican kid who has to code switch to be taken seriously.
—Jennifer A. Marcial Ocasio, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2026
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Noun
Condos also encounter discriminatory treatment in the federal tax code.
—M. Nolan Gray, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
The Legislature now has less than a month to figure out how to comply with a state law to stop using QR codes to count ballots.
—Adam Beam, AJC.com, 13 Mar. 2026
Verb
Under normal conditions, for example, some RNA modification patterns trigger the disposal of RNAs that code for or help decode stress-response proteins.
—Marlene Belfort, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2026
The Puerto Rican kid who has to code switch to be taken seriously.
—Jennifer A. Marcial Ocasio, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for code
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Italy's Constitutional Court on March 12 upheld a 2025 law restricting citizenship to persons with an Italian parent or grandparent.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
15 Mar. 2026
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Uncompensated seizure under the land-expropriation law can only be pursued under narrow circumstances—when land is unused or has been abandoned, for example—and the program seemingly has yet to seize any property.—
Boyce Upholt,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 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
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The constraints on Japan’s involvement in Iran include a provision in its post-World War II constitution that bans the use of force except to defend its territory.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
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Japan’s pacifist postwar constitution imposes strict limits on the use of force.—
Hanako Montgomery,
CNN Money,
19 Mar. 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 Community College of Beaver County is under a cyberattack, with unknown bad actors encrypting all college data and demanding ransom payments to lift it.—
Andy Sheehan,
CBS News,
9 Mar. 2026
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While messages between iPhones are already encrypted via iMessage, this update finally introduces the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol to secure those conversations peppered with green bubbles.—
David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Code.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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