cipher

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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

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

Finally, Marilyn is not presented as a cipher to be solved or quarry to be caged.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

The Cybertruck has become a cipher for this injustice.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025

Unlike a substitution cipher, it doesn’t replace any of the letters in the original message.

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