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Recent Examples of encrypt
These services encrypt your data on your device before it is uploaded, which means the provider cannot read it or unlock it later.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Feb. 2026
Duo and Google Authenticator are both easy to use, free, and offer backup tools that store and encrypt your credentials.
—Brian Sloan, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2026
In those cases, criminals break into a company, encrypt the data and demand a payment to unlock it.
—Suzanne King, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2026
Berkeley’s decision to fully encrypt has been influenced by multiple factors.
—Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Feb. 2026
Duo and Google Authenticator are both easy to use, free, and offer backup tools that store and encrypt your credentials.
—Brian Sloan, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2026
In those cases, criminals break into a company, encrypt the data and demand a payment to unlock it.
—Suzanne King, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2026
Berkeley’s decision to fully encrypt has been influenced by multiple factors.
—Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for encrypt
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With minor variations, everything uses the same sets of three DNA bases to encode the same 20 amino acids.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
30 Apr. 2026
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The technique used to measure the singularities’ velocity could open the door to studying other tiny, fast phenomena in physics, chemistry and biology—or perhaps to find new ways to encode quantum information in materials, according to the researchers.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
30 Apr. 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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Cacioppo—who taught herself to code from books before writing Vanta’s first prototype—now oversees roughly 1,000 employees.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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In the past, peptides were generally believed to be fragments of larger proteins; this doctor’s work helped establish that our genes actually code for many small peptides directly, some of which could become targets or blueprints for new drugs.—
Hannah Jocelyn,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Encrypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encrypt. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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