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Recent Examples of encrypt
Duo and Google Authenticator are both easy to use, free, and offer backup tools that store and encrypt your credentials.
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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
The team has since released their method on GitHub to push more satellite owners to encrypt their data.
—PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2025
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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
The team has since released their method on GitHub to push more satellite owners to encrypt their data.
—PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for encrypt
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One solution is to encode information into logical qubits that can detect and handle such errors.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Mar. 2026
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These particles would encode the bits of a unique serial number.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
18 Mar. 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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Many wanted the city to prioritize improvements to code compliance and the city’s infrastructure.—
Devyani Chhetri,
Dallas Morning News,
28 Mar. 2026
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An agent can, in theory, be dispatched to code a complete software program, or to plan and book a vacation, or to generate a job listing and select among the people who answer it, without being directed to take each step in the process.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Encrypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encrypt. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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