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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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There are privacy implications, of course, but Google says all location data is anonymized and encrypted.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
25 June 2025
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Double and triple extortion strategies, which threaten to not only encrypt data but also leak sensitive information, are raising the stakes.—
Michelle Drolet,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Power is no longer drawn on maps—it’s encoded in algorithms, quantified in processing speeds and protected by cryptographic systems.—
Markus Pflitsch,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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But the Harbin skull still contains enough of its original proteins to tell a different story: A few of them matched specific proteins from Denisovan bones and teeth, as encoded in Denisovan DNA.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 June 2025
Verb
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Jiang sees a bigger threat from everyday coding assistants like Cursor.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
26 June 2025
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From Writing Code To Guiding Systems Tools like Cursor and Windsurf are eliminating repetitive coding tasks.—
Sebastian Avila,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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“Encipher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encipher. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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