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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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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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In those cases, criminals break into a company, encrypt the data and demand a payment to unlock it.—
Suzanne King,
Kansas City Star,
6 Jan. 2026
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So Welch and his team set about building a system that consists of a digital component to interface with the GPU, a terahertz-frequency generator, and a mixer to encode the data on the terahertz signal.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
27 Dec. 2025
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Instead, the solutions to an elliptic curve have a far richer structure — one that’s played a vital role in number theory for centuries, and that cryptographers have taken advantage of to encode secret messages.—
Joseph Howlett,
Quanta Magazine,
12 Dec. 2025
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For example, a doctor’s office may mistakenly code the lab work required for PrEP as a diagnostic test instead of preventive care.—
Zach Dyer,
Miami Herald,
6 Jan. 2026
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Over 98% of Grab’s engineers now use AI to code, which accelerates their development cycles.—
Angelica Ang,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Encipher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encipher. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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