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unscrambling

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verb

present participle of unscramble

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Noun
  • Brains guiding machines To make the system practical, the researchers built an adaptive decoding model that learns general brain patterns and then adjusts to individual users.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 19 Mar. 2026
  • That delay may limit applications that require fast, detailed signal decoding, such as real-time speech translation.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Whether the law survives looming legal challenges—rooted in a 1933 state Supreme Court ruling classifying income as property—remains an open question.
    Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • By classifying sports betting as a public health issue and imposing rigid federal standards, the proposal also significantly limits the autonomy of the states, which have been primarily responsible for the legalization and regulation of this sector since 2018.
    Cláudia Nunes, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The study creates new criteria for deciphering old dice and allows archaeologists to further explore how games have evolved over time, researchers say.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The clicks are part of a growing sperm whale phonetic alphabet that researchers at CETI are deciphering.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Some ideas are about forging connections, like Luke’s insight about disentanglement.
    Dan Rockmore, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The style mishaps kept piling up as cracking wise about wardrobe and hair malfunctions became both a media and national pastime.
    Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Yet, the three — even Cavallari and Conrad, who were pitted against each other in the 2000s — were warm and chummy, cracking jokes and enthusiastically agreeing with one another.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • But many booth owners take great care on their displays and spend their free time arranging their wares just so.
    Josh Miller, Southern Living, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Long before Manhattan's iconic street grid took shape, an English widow laid the groundwork for a settlement in Brooklyn, arranging a small village in what would become the United States into one of the first grid patterns.
    Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • To blame the state for global economic shifts is a convenient political narrative, but a poor economic analysis.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
    The Week US, TheWeek, 11 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • Inside, advanced computer servers are decrypting hard drives and phones and tracking IP addresses tied to the fraud network.
    J.D. Miles, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
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“Unscrambling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscrambling. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.

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