encrypt

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Definition of encryptnext
as in to encode

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Recent Examples of encrypt The goal is to encrypt a message so that someone who gets hold of it cannot split it into two usable versions that both reveal the message once the decrypting key is known. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 31 July 2026 But ransomware attacks often secretly infect fleets of computers and servers, and then encrypt all the data, effectively shutting down access. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 16 July 2026 According to Traina, the biometric data is encrypted, sent to the user’s device, and subsequently deleted. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 1 June 2026 Most cloud computing services encrypt data in transit and at rest. — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for encrypt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for encrypt
  1. encode
  2. cipher
  3. code
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  • To avoid easy detection, the font lets publishers increase the underlying chaos by choosing from three different potential mappings for each word replacement, with the ability to encode their own and/or swap mappings from paragraph to paragraph.
    — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Now a team in China has managed to encode that formula into a physical system and explore its workings using a quantum computer.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of encode
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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
Definition of cipher
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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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“Encrypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encrypt. Accessed 21 Aug. 2026.

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