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Fans were left to unscramble the letters into 12 cities: Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Milan, London, Melbourne, Santa Monica, New York, Nashville, Chicago, Beverly Grove and Las Vegas.—
Bryan West,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Oct. 2025 -
That disappointment did not stop Burton from dominating the second chances contest, which ended with him unscrambling the pirate term Jolly Roger before any of the other players could even get out of their previous stage jail cells.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Instead of extorting money to decrypt data in a company’s own system, an attacker can just threaten to release sensitive data if the ransom isn’t paid.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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There is still no evidence that attackers decrypted customer passwords.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
16 Dec. 2025
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Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Robert Graysmith, the real-life political cartoonist who attempted to decode the infamous serial killer's messages and went down numerous rabbit holes for years.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Jan. 2026
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The motion follows a precise encoding scheme that researchers can decode by watching through a microscope.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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But this can be tricky to decipher without a medical degree.—
Korin Miller,
Flow Space,
21 Jan. 2026
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So, the thinking went, every costume, prop, and line reading is there for a reason, infinite symbolism scattered across the frame for anyone determined enough to decipher it.—
Lane Brown,
Vulture,
17 Dec. 2025
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“Descramble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descramble. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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