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
  • Already, the police department has the ability to encrypt communications for more sensitive operations, such as while serving search warrants.
    Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Some use protocols that are not designed to protect privacy, obscure ownership or fail to encrypt traffic properly.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Punk needed sound engineers; this movement needs stage managers who can code.
    Bob Bonniol, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Rather than being taught to code, they’ll be tasked with deciding which challenges are worth the cost of quantum compute.
    Big Think, Big Think, 22 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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