1
as in to crack
to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language
we deciphered the hidden message to find out when we were supposed to meet
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as in to understand
to have a clear idea of
a convoluted thriller, the plot of which I was never able to actually decipher
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Recent Examples of decipher
Body camera footage of the standoff shows a scuffle, but deciphering exactly what happened from the video and photos is difficult.
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Jared Gans, The Hill, 21 May 2025
Sometimes, Tarhan explained, women will flip the cups over and try and try to decipher the meaning left behind by the coffee sediment — kind of like reading your fortune in tea leaves.
—Samantha Husted, Charlotte Observer, 12 May 2025
Finally, Ross helps boost your energy intelligence to decipher when rest requires slowing down and when it’s achieved by accelerating in a new, reinvigorating direction.
—Serenity Gibbons, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Experts are still working to decipher exactly where the artifact is from.
—Rachel Flynn, People.com, 27 May 2025
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Jared Gans, The Hill, 21 May 2025
Sometimes, Tarhan explained, women will flip the cups over and try and try to decipher the meaning left behind by the coffee sediment — kind of like reading your fortune in tea leaves.
—Samantha Husted, Charlotte Observer, 12 May 2025
Finally, Ross helps boost your energy intelligence to decipher when rest requires slowing down and when it’s achieved by accelerating in a new, reinvigorating direction.
—Serenity Gibbons, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Experts are still working to decipher exactly where the artifact is from.
—Rachel Flynn, People.com, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decipher
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The album first cracked the top 10 on the Billboard 200 on the chart dated Aug. 31, 1985, and first reached No. 1 on the chart dated March 8, 1986.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
25 June 2025
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Whoever cracks this first could use a first mover’s advantage to build a hard-to-beat flywheel of highly engaged, big-spending consumers that attracts partner brands and retailers that don’t want to miss out on a new growth channel.—
Jason Del Rey,
Fortune,
25 June 2025
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The mission’s detailed investigation of Europa will help scientists better understand the astrobiological potential for habitable worlds beyond our planet.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 June 2025
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Agnes understands that the world is not about good and evil and virtue and sin.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
23 June 2025
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But underneath that, there’s often something harder to name — a kind of emotional itch, or mood, that doesn’t really translate.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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With over 25 million passengers sailing annually, that translates to roughly one incident per million cruisers, according to travel website Boarding Area.—
Isabel van Brugen,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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The Trump administration said the strikes destroyed Iran's nuclear infrastructure, but the full extent of the damage is not known.—
Sonam Sheth
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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The attack is believed to be part of a hacking spree perpetrated by a cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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This prevents unwritten rules from being bent or broken.—
Nate Bennett,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Having fared well at home on Show TV, the series is one of a growing number of Turkish dramas breaking into Western Europe.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
1 July 2025
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They had been expected to argue that severe mental disease or defect caused Purdy not to comprehend that his conduct was wrong.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 June 2025
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Israeli intelligence has also monitored the reaction to the campaign among Iranian leadership, which has struggled to comprehend the extent of the damage, the Israeli official said.—
Michael Wilner,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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While high-end IEMs provide the very best sound quality, they are limited by the tether of their cable and need an external DAC to decode the hi-res music source.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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After taking a photo of the ice and converting it to grayscale, the researchers trained a computer to decode the message by detecting the position and size of bubbles based on their grayscale value (regions without bubbles are dark gray, while bubbles are almost white).—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
20 June 2025
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Every year, The Hollywood Reporter recognizes the town’s best and most influential business managers working behind the scenes to manage the financial lives of entertainment’s most high-profile figures.—
Trey Williams,
HollywoodReporter,
1 July 2025
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The system even recognizes when the user is trying to sing and can change the pitch to match simple melodies.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2025
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“Decipher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decipher. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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