DECODED Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

decoded

verb

past tense of decode

as in deciphered

to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language the agents worked into the night to decode the intercepted message from the enemy spy

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as in understood

to have a clear idea of I was never able to decode the strange relationship that existed between those two people

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Recent Examples of decoded After noticing that one of the items purchased was the entire Lip Critic discography on Bandcamp, Kaser was later confronted by the fan at one of their shows, who claimed to have decoded hidden messages in their music. —

Alastair Shuttleworth, Pitchfork, 2 May 2026 The Human Genome Project was declared complete in 2003, with 92 percent of the human genome decoded; the majority of the remaining genome was sequenced by 2021. —

Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2026 The Cambridge lab built on this work for a follow up earlier this year, which not only decoded silent speech but also detected the emotional state of the wearer. —

Omar Kardoudi april 23, New Atlas, 23 Apr. 2026 These signals are digitized and decoded by some form of specialist software. —

Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 14 Mar. 2026 However the telegram could not be decoded because there was an issue finding the keys to the safe where the codebook was kept. —

Hope Coke, Vanity Fair, 7 Feb. 2026 In 2024, scientists decoded sperm whale codas. —

Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 12 Nov. 2025 My work happens where languages don’t line up, where meaning must be reimagined rather than decoded and flattened. —

Ross Benjamin, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025 Once decoded, the coordinates pointed directly to Guadalajara. —

Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025

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As a preface, the conclusion here, deciphered from the scene by this author, was a plea for Giannis Antetokounmpo.

— Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 16 May 2026
By slow degrees, Philip’s story shifts to accommodate the incontrovertible evidence of IP addresses and deciphered cryptography and Lucy struggles to keep up, let alone understand.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026