encode

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Recent Examples of encode This broader engagement helps students encode information more effectively. Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 These quantum objects can exist in three or more possible states and can therefore encode more information. Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025 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 Perhaps most unique, though, was the society's method of keeping records known as khipu, which involves a system of tying knots to encode information. Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for encode
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Verb
  • As noted earlier, EncryptionSafe also uses a single master password to encrypt all files.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Discord does not encrypt its private channels, meaning that the company has technical access to users’ conversations and can turn them over to law enforcement if presented with a court order or warrant.
    Kevin Collier, NBC news, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • None of them have hours to study how to code or search for plugins.
    Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Anthropic says its new AI model can code for longer than prior versions.
    John Kell, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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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