cipher
Example Sentences
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Gabriel could have come across as a mere cipher in this environment, a faceless spook navigating smoke and mirrors.
“Election Day” isn’t a space, say, with complex cipher codes to untangle.
From Los Angeles Times
Some maintain that Orange County is still basically a cultural cipher--and some who adhere to this notion are home-grown.
From Los Angeles Times
That conversation comes up in “Twin Peaks: The Return” as Lynch flat-out confirms Laura Palmer to be a cipher for unyielding good, intended to restore universal balance after humankind developed a new capacity for evil.
From Salon
The rest of them in the film are ciphers whose motives, dreams, suffering and rage remain unknown to us.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
