DESCRAMBLE Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

descramble

verb

Definition of descramble

as in to unscramble

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But uncertainty over what happens in the weeks ahead, as well as the complexity of unscrambling the blockage created by the closure of the strait, will continue to affect gasoline prices.

— Daniel Yergin, Time, 20 June 2026
Thus, the most straightforward attempt to unscramble the omelet faltered.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025

Definition of unscramble

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Meanwhile, Vision decrypts a mocking email exchange between Ultron and Paladin, who’s angry his unbreakable contract was broken.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2026
Start with the information that would still create material risk if it were decrypted years from now.

— Scott Alldridge, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of decrypt

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Preliminary single-rollout measurements showed approximately 25 times faster generation than autoregressive decoding.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
From ‘cortisol face’, the TikTok shorthand for facial puffiness allegedly linked to elevated stress, to the weight loss-adjacent ‘Ozempic face’, social media is now a hotbed for decoding what the body might be telling us in the mirror.

— Amy Francombe, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of decode

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Salas-Altès hopes to continue working to decipher the 280 engravings, as well as to understand the history of human presence in the cave.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2026
Bahdanau was working with artificial neural networks, which had already shown promise in pattern-recognition tasks such as deciphering handwriting and identifying objects in photos.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026

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