decode
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They try to decode world events, looking for clues that the promised day of “awakening” has arrived.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Online shopping, says Charlotte, “is something I avoid, especially as I get older — I just don’t have the patience to decode the sizing differences of four different brands selling basically the same shirt.”
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
She has learned to decode nutrition labels and developed a taste for salads and nuts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
But the global superstar - known for long-game teases and hidden Easter eggs that fans love to decode - has been coy on details of her wedding to American football star, Travis Kelce.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
For someone who knew the system and had the right code books, it wasn’t too hard to work backward and decode the radio message.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Ms. Allen traces pen names, decodes handwriting and deciphers marginalia in Richmond’s correspondence and books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Prof Ramesh is the principal investigator on Visible Emission Line Coronagraph, or Velc - the most important of the seven scientific instruments on Aditya-L1 - and closely monitors and decodes the data it gathers.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025
“Karlyn Borysenko infiltrates their meetings, collects their materials, decodes their language, and exposes their ideas,” reads her description of her Substack.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
A stray orange cat; a séance in a hostel; a “nearsighted galoot” who decodes cryptic messages from Radio Pyongyang; flashlights that aren’t just flashlights — these bread crumbs guide us to the novel’s denouement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
As though the intelligence that decodes life’s hidden patterns—that connects reflections to images, glints to light, weaves to fabrics, needles to thread, walls to rooms, love to fear to anger to remorse—was suddenly lost.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Seales' team decoded surviving portions of a Herculaneum scroll known as PHerc.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Royal meaning must often be decoded, and the King will have wanted to avoid offending his host.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
The TV guide helpfully decoded what I was watching: a film called “Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains,” and it was showing on Night Flight.
From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2026
"We have essentially decoded how the body converts movement into stronger bones," said Professor Xu Aimin.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 27, 2026
The RNA copy of a gene then moved from the nucleus to the cytosol, where its message was decoded to build a protein.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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If decoding the Leipzig affair and its actual or possible ramifications seems to require an advanced degree in international semiotics, the reported facts are straightforward enough.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
The approach could have wide-ranging applications, from decoding genetic activity to improving weather predictions.
From Science Daily ● May 6, 2026
The company promises Ising will deliver up to three times higher accuracy for the decoding process central to quantum error correction.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
“I’m all about decoding the rhythms of the music,” she adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
“What we have here is called a ciphertext. When decoding a secret message like this, letter frequency analysis is a good place to start.”
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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