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encode

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as in to encrypt

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Recent Examples of encode Rather than storing information electromagnetically, the resonators encode data through tiny vibrations. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 9 July 2026 The expert with 20 years in a field can now encode their methodology directly, so a category can go from three incumbents to 300 startups in a year. — Harshil Shah, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 Their tiny synthetic genome did not encode any metabolic genes, which would let the cell process food and energy, or many of the complex molecules a cell needs. — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 1 July 2026 Recently, scientists have developed acoustic devices in which sound waves can encode multiple values in its waves phase. — IEEE Spectrum, 18 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for encode

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Satellites need to process data locally, compress it, filter it, encrypt it and determine what should be transmitted.

— Ben Topor, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Only Fortitude could be accessed by thieves, solely due to the production company’s failure to encrypt the drive, the spokesperson alleged.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026

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The tech company spent several months building and internally testing Cloudflare OS, which allows employees to describe workflows in natural language so that an AI agent can code them into applications.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2026
Shopify's e-commerce platform lets anyone build a digital shop and sell things without needing to code.

— Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 5 Aug. 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
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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