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cipher

[sahy-fer] / ˈsaɪ fər /




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But when Walker and Auen plunge our cipher, Béatrice, into the world of sparse electrostatic video, the result is both harrowing and unbelievably beautiful.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Protected by their cipher and full of vim, the Americans were under a blanket of surveillance in Moscow so heavy that they couldn’t wriggle out long enough to meet refuseniks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Even being in a writer’s room for “Beef” Season 2 — that was my first writer’s room — felt like a cipher.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

Frostproof became a cipher for just how untouchable the industry had become.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

It was a weakness in the system, and it helped Elizebeth break the cipher layer.

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

They are not faux-furious pundits with smug grins, though, merely your standard headline ciphers.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2023

Nearly everyone had dropped out by now, having decided that doing homework would be easier than the work of creating and breaking the class ciphers.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

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

He wore a red shirt that had become rather black where his long brown ringlets fell on his shoulders; it had tarnished gilt buttons ciphered "G. R.," stolen, I suppose, from some English ship.

From Romance by Joseph Conrad

“They will occupy historians of Britain and Europe and students of the French language and early modern ciphering techniques for many years to come,” he said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2023

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

The only subjects that came easily were those taught by Writing Mistress: composition and ciphering.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine




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