as in deciphered
to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language
decrypting the Germans' code was one of the Allies' greatest triumphs
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Recent Examples of decrypted
Various e-mails sent by Fassih from Dublin were later decrypted by the Dutch police.
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Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
For any dynamic routing logic to work, the token must be decrypted, allowing orchestration platforms to reroute transactions intelligently and maximize approval rates.
—Andrew Riabchuk, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
That means today’s private videos, stored on cloud platforms or transmitted over the internet, could be decrypted years from now.
—Yashas Hariprasad, Space.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
For any dynamic routing logic to work, the token must be decrypted, allowing orchestration platforms to reroute transactions intelligently and maximize approval rates.
—Andrew Riabchuk, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
That means today’s private videos, stored on cloud platforms or transmitted over the internet, could be decrypted years from now.
—Yashas Hariprasad, Space.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decrypted
deciphered
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While expeditions in the early 1990s deciphered crucial insights into the ship’s final moments, one expedition drew sharp criticism after a crewman’s body was found.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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All these tropes — gaydar and girls without it — make for easier narratives, but the presumption that the codes of the heart can be deciphered on the body is one that, outside the world of absurdist comedy — and probably sometimes within it as well — can wound and damage.—
Kelly Foster Lundquist,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Decrypted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decrypted. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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