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Recent Examples of encipher
The digitized voice and key were enciphered by modulo six addition.
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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, 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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The real challenge from AI will likely emerge in the weeks and months ahead as firms cipher through Judge Mehta’s enforcement of behavioral requirements.—
Tor Constantino,
Forbes.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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These remnants, signals from an earlier phase of our human condition, have been endlessly ciphered by generations of archaeologists in the Bears Ears region (which is named for twin buttes near its center).—
STEPHEN NASH,
New York Times,
25 July 2017
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In a way, the engineering behind Confer is profoundly simple: the private key is kept with the user, so after the data is encrypted at the point of departure, it can’t be viewed by any other party.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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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,
FOXNews.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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Impressively, the researchers found that minute, transient voltage fluctuations in these segments encode precise velocity data.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Jan. 2026
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But the images encode all the dark matter between the far-off object and the telescope.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
25 Jan. 2026
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Trump’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, led by Mehmet Oz, also proposed to restrict further how insurers can code the illnesses of their Medicare Advantage enrollees.—
Bob Herman,
STAT,
26 Jan. 2026
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Students who need items can reach out to PPS, submit a request in 5 Star, contact a school social worker or scan the QR code the school put on their social media.—
CBS Chicago Team,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Encipher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encipher. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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