cipher

Example Sentences

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Each letter in a standard Caesar cipher is replaced by the one three spots down the alphabet so an ‘A’ becomes a ‘D.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

“Election Day” isn’t a space, say, with complex cipher codes to untangle.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025

The Cybertruck has become a cipher for this injustice.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025

Since the nascent days of filmmaking, “Nosferatu” has been a sociological cipher.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2024

The first one said, “This cipher is absolutely indecipherable.”

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