DESCRAMBLING Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

descrambling

verb

present participle of descramble

as in decoding

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Yamal, who turned 19 on Monday, is not one of those players whose talent needs decoding.

— Jack Lang, New York Times, 18 July 2026
But the bank added that BrainCo's proprietary sensors, AI decoding algorithm and commercialization record give the company an edge.

— Elaine Yu, CNBC, 11 July 2026

Definition of decoding

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The deadline has prompted security engineers to focus preparations to ward off harvest-now-decrypt-later (HNDL, and also store now, decrypt later) threats, in which adversaries squirrel away encrypted data flowing over the Internet with the plan of decrypting it on Q-Day—the date a CRQC arrives.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2026
WhatsApp and Signal are best known for using end-to-end encryption, which can prevent even the messaging services themselves from decrypting user chats.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 9 Mar. 2026

Definition of decrypting

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Jonestown afflicted Naipaul’s vision, his way of deciphering not just political manias but the dreariness of urban life, the perpetual doom of the nuclear-arms race.

— Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 14 July 2026
In 2023, the Vesuvius Challenge made its first award for deciphering the first letters, and the following year, the project awarded the grand prize of $700,000 for producing the first readable text.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2026

Definition of deciphering

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As part of the last step to cracking the cold case, direct DNA testing confirmed Edwards’ identity.

— Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Although braids wind their way into many different areas of science, from protein folding to string theory, simply cracking the century-old case was enough of a reward for the trio.

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 24 July 2026

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