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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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Cnbc Make It Staff, CNBC, 19 May 2025
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—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 May 2025
Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 13 May 2025
The aspiring app developers of today no longer have to be fluent in coding.
—Angela Yang, NBC news, 13 May 2025
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Noun
Every course is now 30% off the regular course price (plus tax) for Memorial Day using coupon code MEMORIAL at checkout from May 19 to June 2.
—Cnbc Make It Staff, CNBC, 19 May 2025
Follow these directions and register using your full legal name, birthdate, home address, then turn the location settings on with your device and apply the BetMGM bonus code at the proper time.
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 May 2025
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Founders and engineers told me that with today’s AI products, many years of Ph.D. work would have been reduced to just one, and a day’s worth of coding could be done with a single prompt.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 13 May 2025
The aspiring app developers of today no longer have to be fluent in coding.
—Angela Yang, NBC news, 13 May 2025
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But efforts at the federal level fell short, including a congressional attempt, in 1995, to enact a law making English the exclusive language of the federal government and repealing the bilingual requirements of the Voting Rights Act.—
Graciela Mochkofsky,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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Another point of contention at the convention came from Utah Senate Bill 54, a law that has grown controversial to members of the Utah GOP.—
Annabella Rosciglione,
The Washington Examiner,
19 May 2025
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Some saw personhood as politically impractical, especially after personhood amendments to state constitutions were rejected by voters in Colorado, Mississippi and North Dakota between 2008 and 2014.—
Kate Brumback,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2025
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The temporary constitution signed by al-Sharaa in March guarantees basic freedoms such as freedoms of opinion, expression and the press.—
Chris Massaro,
FOXNews.com,
13 May 2025
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Instead, it may be based on billions of micro-decisions encoded in massive matrices.—
Tor Constantino,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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The team tried three methods of encoding the data, which differed in terms of how the pixels of the images were sliced up and how many qubits the resulting slices were sent to.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
11 Apr. 2025
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What’s left is like a digital barcode for your eyeball that’s encrypted, split into pieces, and scattered across a decentralized network, kind of like a glitter bomb.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
2 May 2025
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Regardless of that, Signal is a commercially available app that is encrypted but is not a government network and not authorized to carry classified information.—
Tara Copp,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Code.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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