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unscrambling

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verb

present participle of unscramble

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscrambling
Noun
  • Dynamic decoding changes the probabilities based on the task at hand, without changing the model’s underlying weights.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Still, his words require considerable decoding.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The industry says classifying EWA as a loan could have the perverse effect of sending consumers back to higher-cost, risky alternatives such as payday loans or pawn shops by imposing unnecessary restrictions, such as mandatory fees, interest charges and credit reporting requirements.
    Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
  • His team uses taxonomy — the science of naming and classifying species — to formalize new names from field notes.
    Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 27 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • When your speech is clear and reliable, no fog, no spin, no quiet evasions, people stop wasting energy deciphering you and start collaborating with you.
    Adam Dietz, Big Think, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Pitch tipping — the art of deciphering what might be coming based on small tells a pitcher might have — is a legal and common practice.
    Evan Drellich, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Some ideas are about forging connections, like Luke’s insight about disentanglement.
    Dan Rockmore, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The sterile slats seemed to suck the energy out of all our spaces, but nowhere more than in the living room, where an enormous window dressed in cracking plastic anchored the main wall.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Wise-cracking scribes wanted changes.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The victims were women whom the attacker had come to him after arranging a date on an escort application, police said.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Top with butter pieces, arranging evenly over surface.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Nearly two-thirds of children detained by ICE were eventually deported, and almost 1 in 10 left the country when their parents accepted voluntary departure, according to an AP analysis of the latest comprehensive data.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Mar. 2026
  • This data is affirmed by an isotope analysis, which showed that the plague victims grew up in different places.
    Durrie Bouscaren, NPR, 28 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Passepartout is also a wink at a long-running Italian television series in the early 2000s hosted by art historian Philippe Daverio, which made discovering and decrypting art very entertaining.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Use security tools capable of decrypting and inspecting PQC traffic.
    Anand Oswal, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Unscrambling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscrambling. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.

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