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cipher

[sahy-fer] / ˈsaɪ fər /




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Even being in a writer’s room for “Beef” Season 2 — that was my first writer’s room — felt like a cipher.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Frostproof became a cipher for just how untouchable the industry had become.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

But he has been a cipher when it comes to the administration’s military “excursions,” as Trump calls them, and has reportedly even been exiled from the makeshift Mar-a-Lago situation room.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2026

Gabriel could have come across as a mere cipher in this environment, a faceless spook navigating smoke and mirrors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

The “unbreakable” Pletts Cryptograph relied in part on keyword ciphers, a type of substitution cipher.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield




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