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Recent Examples of encode
But the images encode all the dark matter between the far-off object and the telescope.
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Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2026
The prize emerges when leaders can explicitly name the steps of their organization’s work and encode them into agents.
—John Sviokla, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
The costs gained from efficiencies are being lapped in next year’s budget and organizations must be willing to encode their own judgment and expertise into systems – or leave that power elsewhere.
—Louisa Loran, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026
The process of visualizing stories can be described as a form of curation, where the artist cares to encode literal text with figurative language.
—Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
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Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2026
The prize emerges when leaders can explicitly name the steps of their organization’s work and encode them into agents.
—John Sviokla, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
The costs gained from efficiencies are being lapped in next year’s budget and organizations must be willing to encode their own judgment and expertise into systems – or leave that power elsewhere.
—Louisa Loran, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026
The process of visualizing stories can be described as a form of curation, where the artist cares to encode literal text with figurative language.
—Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for encode
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In other words: not end-to-end encrypted, but far from an open book.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
17 Mar. 2026
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The Community College of Beaver County is under a cyberattack, with unknown bad actors encrypting all college data and demanding ransom payments to lift it.—
Andy Sheehan,
CBS News,
9 Mar. 2026
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For more than a decade, universities and policymakers told young people that learning to code was the surest path to a high-paying job.—
Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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Later on, it will be integrated into Bluesky and other AT Protocol apps and eventually help people vibe-code their own social media apps, TechCrunch reports.—
Jibin Joseph,
PC Magazine,
30 Mar. 2026
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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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“Encode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encode. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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