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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 Cybertruck has become a cipher for this injustice.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

It’s why Gere pushed for Bosko to be even more of a cipher than he was on the page.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025

She told Santry that when she and William had traveled to Spain, Barbara “sent us messages in cipher all the time.”

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

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

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

Katie Hafner: The messages sent around by the South American spies were using pretty classic methods of encryption, like book ciphers.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023

Soon she was solving ciphers for the Coast Guard “in emergencies.”

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

You can let a computer create various passwords and convert them into ciphered values using known hash functions.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 13, 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

The ciphered letters were believed to be Italian.

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

No sooner had Kirchhoff supplied the key to the hidden meaning of those ciphered characters than it was eagerly turned to the interpretation of the dim scrolls unfolded in the spectra of the stars.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

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 axed Syl, “So you learnt how to do ciphering in that school?”

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis