cipher
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Mr. Burnham remains a cipher on them, which probably helps his popularity now but won’t be sustainable once he’s in charge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Frostproof became a cipher for just how untouchable the industry had become.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
For the public’s purposes, she was a cipher onto which we were urged to project our romantic fantasies.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026
“Election Day” isn’t a space, say, with complex cipher codes to untangle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
It’s too important to turn into a cipher, so I’ll put it to you straight.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
The love he once had for baseball he now felt for a strange and mysterious place that was as old as history itself yet as secretive as the classical ciphers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
Though it is reassuring that it uses well-known and community-reviewed ciphers.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
They were challenged to embed hidden codes, and ciphers into their designs.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
But I am calling for a little more emotional clarity from the adults who condemn these students for being imperfect ciphers of morality.
From Slate ● May 2, 2024
We intercept German messages, but we can’t break the ciphers.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
You can let a computer create various passwords and convert them into ciphered values using known hash functions.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 13, 2023
The ciphered letters were believed to be Italian.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 8, 2023
Also known as Mary Stuart, the then deposed queen of Scotland, who was a contender for the English throne, wrote these 57 ciphered letters between 1578 and 1584.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 8, 2023
But they were stumped by the even more complex ciphered messages being transmitted among Hitler and the generals Erwin Rommel, Wilhelm Keitel, Gerd von Rundstedt and Alfred Jodl.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2014
So paused Alaric on the Alps And ciphered up the Roman scalps.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis
He used intricate script to write in a ciphering book, which was kept by students of the day to progress through the entirety of their mathematics education.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 2021
He expressed his ciphering talent in an addendum to a letter his wife wrote on July 14, 1897.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2021
This reminds us of when some big, musty steamer trunk of a bill gets plopped down in Congress and the poor folks at the Congressional Budget Office get to ciphering.
From Fox News ● May 5, 2020
“You can tell that when me and Rondo are ciphering through our Rolodex of mental basketball capacity that those guys are like, ‘OK, what are you all talking about?’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2018
I liked ciphering all right, but I didn’t care much for spelling and studying the Bible and memorizing psalms.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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