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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Erin Mote,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
Each statue in Dallas has a QR code that connects to a digital story, video and photos about each woman and her work.
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Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
26 June 2026
New Atlas,
14 May 2026
Programmers had to find ways to code equations as efficiently as possible.
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Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
12 May 2026
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This insatiable appetite frequently leads to leaks of sensitive personal records, malicious code injection and intrusive user profiling.
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Erin Mote,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
Each statue in Dallas has a QR code that connects to a digital story, video and photos about each woman and her work.
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Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
26 June 2026
Verb
Is learning to code on your bucket list?
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New Atlas,
14 May 2026
Programmers had to find ways to code equations as efficiently as possible.
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Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
12 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for code
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Under state law, any single gift — or multiple gifts from the same source that add up to $50 or more during the annual period — must be disclosed.
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Millions of index cards, once restricted by German privacy laws and requiring a lengthy process to obtain, are now directly searchable online in German media, as of a few months ago, after the US National Archives published the surviving membership card files online.
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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.
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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.
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Many have carried the Indian flag and brought copies of the constitution to the demonstration.
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The 1992 change to the state constitution, among other things, limits growth in government spending to a formula based on population growth and inflation.
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This requires curators to encode co-pay logic as rules tied to plan documents, not just inferred from historical claim outcomes.
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How the genes that encode those proteins are regulated depends on some of the genome that doesn’t code for proteins.
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Even the consumer-level codes that encrypt your online banking are so hard to break that every computer on the planet working together would need longer than the age of the universe to brute-force them apart.
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Most cloud computing services encrypt data in transit and at rest.
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“Code.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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