DESCRAMBLED Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

descrambled

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past tense of descramble

as in unscrambled

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The fall arts season, decoded Charlotte’s arts institutions cluster mostly along the Tryon Street corridor in uptown, which makes event-hopping easy.

— Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2026
In 1985, Dutch researcher Wim van Eck showed that electromagnetic signals from video display units could be captured and decoded, raising the possibility of eavesdropping on what a screen displayed.

— Chetan Jaiswal, The Conversation, 30 July 2026

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Uncertainty notwithstanding, the longevity world has glommed onto the notion that the vaginal microbiome is some kind of exotic tealeaf that can be deciphered—and perfected by purchasing the right supplements.

— Sarah DiGregorio, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026
Its successor script, Linea B, was also a mystery until it was deciphered in 1952 by an amateur linguist and cryptographer Michael Ventris with the help of classicist John Chadwick, both building on patterns in the script first identified by classicist Alice Kober.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 23 June 2026

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Retired computer scientist Tom Verhoeff first explored such problems in a workshop for a grade school math camp, where the campers investigated with actual string and carabiners but also translated the problem into symbols.

— Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2026
Those victims and the 3-year-old girl had gunshot wounds to the head, while the fourth victim had been shot in the back, the prosecutor’s office said, according to a statement translated from Spanish.

— Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2026

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Authorities have also warned of potential further collapse around the glacier on Langtang Lirung mountain in Nepal, which cracked and broke off, triggering the August 26 landslide and flooding.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
Michael Busch cracked an RBI single off Calvin Faucher in the sixth, before Kyle Stowers’ home run – a solo shot and his 19th of the season – in the seventh pulled Miami to within 6-5.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026

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