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Recent Examples of encipher
Photo: Mark Richards Code Maker: One of Spicer’s favorite artifacts is this World War II German enciphering machine, called the Enigma.
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IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2011
The digitized voice and key were enciphered by modulo six addition.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Jan. 2019
To protect sensitive communications traveling along public pathways, the senders enciphered—or encrypted—their words, often using machines that could replace each letter with a new letter.
—Liza Mundy, Time, 10 Oct. 2017
IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2011
The digitized voice and key were enciphered by modulo six addition.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Jan. 2019
To protect sensitive communications traveling along public pathways, the senders enciphered—or encrypted—their words, often using machines that could replace each letter with a new letter.
—Liza Mundy, Time, 10 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for encipher
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This doesn’t typically apply to dedicated password manager extensions, which encrypt your data independently and don’t rely on browser storage.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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The data is encrypted en route to users’ devices, where users can set up the app to require authentication before opening it.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2025
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Spend 10-15 seconds savoring each of the positive aspects of the experience so it can be encoded into your nervous system.—
Katy Bowman,
NPR,
13 Apr. 2025
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Only in such a number could Moore encode the data of an infinitely long Turing tape.—
Charlie Wood,
Wired News,
6 Apr. 2025
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The most challenging character was the tall, green Creeper, which originated as a deformed pig because of a coding error.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
26 Apr. 2025
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Protecting the human spark While AI models that simulate creativity in writing, coding, images, audio, or video can achieve remarkable imitations of human works, this sophisticated mimicry currently lacks the full depth of the human experience.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Encipher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encipher. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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