crack the code
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Saks needed money for the deal, and Amazon—which had long tried to crack the code of selling luxury goods online—invested $475 million in the parent company, Saks Global.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
"She's been playing some great tennis since the end of last year but I'm going to do my best to hopefully crack the code on her."
From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026
Adding fuel to the race, MK Stalin, the chief minister of southern India's Tamil Nadu state, recently upped the stakes, announcing a $1m prize for anyone who can crack the code.
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2025
See if you can crack the code to this week’s Slate News Quiz.
From Slate • Aug. 30, 2024
It took an Italian monk, immortalised as Guido of Arezzo, to crack the code in around ad iooo and give Western music its unique system of notation, still in use today.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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