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Recent Examples of encrypt
The directive did not require police departments to encrypt their radios.
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Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
However, one sample encrypted about six dozen files, including all the other ransomware samples.
—PC Magazine, 27 Aug. 2025
Sequent uses a cryptographic system, which encrypts responses and uses mathematical proofs to ensure votes are counted correctly.
—Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 20 Aug. 2025
By encrypting data and masking IP addresses, VPNs shield users from hackers, corporate trackers, and even government surveillance.
—James Czerniawski, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
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Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
However, one sample encrypted about six dozen files, including all the other ransomware samples.
—PC Magazine, 27 Aug. 2025
Sequent uses a cryptographic system, which encrypts responses and uses mathematical proofs to ensure votes are counted correctly.
—Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 20 Aug. 2025
By encrypting data and masking IP addresses, VPNs shield users from hackers, corporate trackers, and even government surveillance.
—James Czerniawski, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for encrypt
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These models encode representational maps.—
Eric Markowitz,
Big Think,
23 Sep. 2025
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These findings highlight a more significant aspect of how AI systems encode and perpetuate cultural assumptions, as well as where decoding errors might occur in the human reader's mind.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
23 Sep. 2025
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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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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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Examples range from questions about health care policies, to code that correctly uses third-party APIs.—
Byron Cook,
Fortune,
20 Sep. 2025
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For example, a politically motivated shooting might be coded as terrorism in federal reporting, cataloged as political violence by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, and prosecuted as a homicide or a hate crime at the state level.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Encrypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encrypt. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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