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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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Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
Likewise, decision-makers and stakeholders must educate themselves on how and why fire codes are developed, so the importance of this work is clearly understood.
—Christina Diaz, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2026
Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
Regulatory sequences are segments of DNA that don’t code for genes but do control gene expression.
—Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Jared Leto takes the lead as Ares, a super advanced MCP who leaves the Grid to track down a code that could let programs exist in the real world.
—Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
Likewise, decision-makers and stakeholders must educate themselves on how and why fire codes are developed, so the importance of this work is clearly understood.
—Christina Diaz, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2026
Verb
Her nonprofit Kode With Klossy, which supports female teenagers learning to code, celebrated its 10-year anniversary in 2025.
—Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
Regulatory sequences are segments of DNA that don’t code for genes but do control gene expression.
—Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
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The board’s unanimous vote came weeks after pension-plan actuaries confirmed the program would be cost-neutral, as state law requires.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
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The opposing side has said that Idaho’s law targets and harms trans women and girls and that Hecox, specifically, mitigated any potential advantages through hormone treatments.—
Becca Savransky,
Idaho Statesman,
14 Jan. 2026
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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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These remnants, signals from an earlier phase of our human condition, have been endlessly ciphered by generations of archaeologists in the Bears Ears region (which is named for twin buttes near its center).—
STEPHEN NASH,
New York Times,
25 July 2017
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In November, California voters backed the new maps through the ballot measure known as Proposition 50, voting to amend their state's constitution so that the new map could be used from 2026 to 2030.—
Nidia Cavazos,
CBS News,
14 Jan. 2026
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Tanenbaum described himself as an originalist — a reference to a judicial philosophy often associated with conservative jurisprudence, which calls for the constitution to be interpreted the way its framers would have understood it.—
Divya Kumar,
Miami Herald,
14 Jan. 2026
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So Welch and his team set about building a system that consists of a digital component to interface with the GPU, a terahertz-frequency generator, and a mixer to encode the data on the terahertz signal.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
27 Dec. 2025
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Instead, the solutions to an elliptic curve have a far richer structure — one that’s played a vital role in number theory for centuries, and that cryptographers have taken advantage of to encode secret messages.—
Joseph Howlett,
Quanta Magazine,
12 Dec. 2025
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This doesn’t typically apply to dedicated password manager extensions, which encrypt your data independently and don’t rely on browser storage.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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In those cases, criminals break into a company, encrypt the data and demand a payment to unlock it.—
Suzanne King,
Kansas City Star,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Code.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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