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Recent Examples of encode
The prize emerges when leaders can explicitly name the steps of their organization’s work and encode them into agents.
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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
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
These empires managed to encode their folkloric art into everyday realities through the curation of their imagery, a comic-strip like style, refined and easy to replicate, while heavily coded with elements partial to those empires’ realities, such as papyrus, chariots, and images of the afterlife.
—Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
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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
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
These empires managed to encode their folkloric art into everyday realities through the curation of their imagery, a comic-strip like style, refined and easy to replicate, while heavily coded with elements partial to those empires’ realities, such as papyrus, chariots, and images of the afterlife.
—Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for encode
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The experts also uploaded proofs of the solutions but encrypted them.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
9 Feb. 2026
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These services encrypt your data on your device before it is uploaded, which means the provider cannot read it or unlock it later.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Being able to code no longer makes an applicant stand out.—
Rachel Barber,
USA Today,
27 Feb. 2026
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These systems can now write software and launch programs without users ever learning to code.—
David Stout,
Fortune,
19 Feb. 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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