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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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Without every piece of the puzzle, the final malware payload cannot be decrypted correctly.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Ideally only those with a secret key can decrypt it.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
22 Oct. 2025
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Tsao is best known for decoding how macaque monkeys perceive faces.—
James Somers,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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His team, including Igal Szleifer, Luay Almassalha, and Kyle MacQuarrie, decoded how DNA’s shape, not just its sequence, influences gene behavior.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Oct. 2025
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Their job was to transmit secure battlefield communications that the enemy could not decipher.—
Tim Trudell,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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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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