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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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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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This security relies on protocols—like virtual private networks (VPN), transport layer security (TLS), Secure Shell (SSH)—and public key infrastructure (PKI), a system that uses one key to encrypt data and a separate key to decrypt it.—
Anand Oswal,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Secure your internet traffic by enabling a VPN to encrypt your data in transit.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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These were computer programs that were designed to encode the knowledge of human experts in a particular domain into a set of logical rules which the software would then apply to accomplish some specific task.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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And history has shown that once bias is encoded into clinical tools, even obvious harms can take decades to undo—if they’re undone at all.—
Craig Spencer,
The Atlantic,
29 Aug. 2025
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Finally, the company also learned its AI was used by someone with minimal technical skills to code up ransomware packages, which were then sold online to other cybercriminals for up to $1,200.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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That has alarming implications for human occupations as diverse as coding and customer service, trading and sales.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Encipher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encipher. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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