UNSCRAMBLING Synonyms: 100 Similar and Opposite Words

unscrambling 1 of 2

noun

as in decoding

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unscrambling

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verb

present participle of unscramble

as in descrambling

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as in classifying

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Noun

Previously, users had to press a button to start and stop recording neural activity for speech decoding.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
The speech of AIs seems to require remarkably little decoding.

— Agnes Callard, The New York Review of Books, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of decoding

Verb

Bahdanau was working with artificial neural networks, which had already shown promise in pattern-recognition tasks such as deciphering handwriting and identifying objects in photos.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026
In addition to developing better medicines or perfumes, deciphering the mirror images of molecules can help scientists understand the chemical architecture of life, said chemist Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the journal Science.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of deciphering

Verb

The prosecution argued that the victims — who all belonged to the church and had since left — delayed reporting the incidents or classifying them as rape due to fear of retaliation for violating a Scientology rule against going to the police.

— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026
Operators fed Maven intelligence classifying the elementary school as an Iranian military facility, and the system, in turn, marked it as one of the priority targets for day one of the war.

— Kylie Jones, Vox, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of classifying

Noun

The Middle-Market Reality KPMG’s 2026 Global M&A Outlook, based on a survey of 700 dealmakers, found that operational disentanglement is the top execution risk cited by respondents, ahead of both valuation complexity and IT separation.

— Miki Kapoor, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Some ideas are about forging connections, like Luke’s insight about disentanglement.

— Dan Rockmore, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025

Definition of disentanglement

Verb

Their success in cracking the code gave the Allies critical intelligence and helped turn the tide of World War II.

— Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2026
But sadly for the multi trillion dollar company, some of the larger, inner screens on its $2,000-plus devices are already cracking, and early postmortems point to their faulty hinge design.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of cracking

Verb

One of our all-time favorite experiences was arranging a private, behind-the-scenes tour of Blenheim Palace, led by none other than the Duke of Marlborough himself.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
Miranda Orozco, 50, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after admitting to arranging travel and accommodations for two people who died and another who was seriously injured.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of arranging

Noun

Its engineering and technical teams provide analysis and assessments that help the service evaluate its warfighting capabilities.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
Nearly 10 million more Americans had cast ballots five days before Election Day than at the same point in 2022, according to an analysis of voting data by The Associated Press.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2026

Definition of analysis

Verb

The deadline has prompted security engineers to focus preparations to ward off harvest-now-decrypt-later (HNDL, and also store now, decrypt later) threats, in which adversaries squirrel away encrypted data flowing over the Internet with the plan of decrypting it on Q-Day—the date a CRQC arrives.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2026
WhatsApp and Signal are best known for using end-to-end encryption, which can prevent even the messaging services themselves from decrypting user chats.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 9 Mar. 2026

Definition of decrypting

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