cipher
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Frostproof became a cipher for just how untouchable the industry had become.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
Finally, Marilyn is not presented as a cipher to be solved or quarry to be caged.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 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
Since the nascent days of filmmaking, “Nosferatu” has been a sociological cipher.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2024
At the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Marshall Nirenberg, Heinrich Matthaei, and Philip Leder used a biochemical approach to try to crack the cipher.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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