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cipher

[sahy-fer] / ˈsaɪ fər /




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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

To make the journey work without the audiences seeing each other, Broucke used a mathematical application called a Caesar cipher, created by the Roman general to send encrypted messages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

The Cybertruck has become a cipher for this injustice.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025

That conversation comes up in “Twin Peaks: The Return” as Lynch flat-out confirms Laura Palmer to be a cipher for unyielding good, intended to restore universal balance after humankind developed a new capacity for evil.

From Salon • Jan. 25, 2025

Barbara put this trick to good use at summer camp, when she wrote her letters in cipher so that the camp director couldn’t read them.

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




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