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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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An Enigma ciphering machine that was donated to the museum by telecommunications company SIRTI.Photo: Cantalupi, Pavia One of the artifacts from SIRTI collection was a German ciphering machine used in World War II, an Enigma, Savini says.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
11 Feb. 2020
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Even the consumer-level codes that encrypt your online banking are so hard to break that every computer on the planet working together would need longer than the age of the universe to brute-force them apart.—
David M. Ewalt,
Scientific American,
19 May 2026
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Most cloud computing services encrypt data in transit and at rest.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Apr. 2026
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Teaching kids to think critically and have fun offline will be far better skills to encode in their brains for the rest of their lives than scrolling.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
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Scientists sequence a patient's tumor to identify up to 34 unique molecular fingerprints called neoantigens and encode them into a custom vaccine.—
Allison Aubrey,
NPR,
1 June 2026
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In health care, the minibar is a secondary diagnosis — and the financial incentive to find one, document one, or code one more aggressively than the clinical reality warrants is enormous.—
Darshak Sanghavi,
STAT,
3 June 2026
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That said, the consensus seems to be that adding instructions to code that sabotage other people’s work goes too far.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
28 May 2026
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“Encipher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encipher. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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