decode
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Financial advisers may want to flaunt what they’ve learned after years of study, leaving clients trying to decode what feels like a new language.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Scientists have discovered a powerful new way to decode the weather on distant worlds, revealing surprisingly organized patterns hidden within the turbulent atmosphere of a mysterious object 20 light-years from Earth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Tanden can reflexively rattle off the particularities of housing protocols I couldn’t begin to decode; she titters with satisfaction upon recounting the intricacies of a long-discarded Australian cap-and-trade proposal.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
But while her lyrics describe situations both grave and dangerous—the record’s title is a homophone for “violence”—her words are peppered with bizarre humor and images that aren’t easy to decode.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Given that my rant is disguised as a question, it takes him a moment to decode.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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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
“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
Another, called PerturbSci-Kinetics, developed by graduate student Zihan Xu, decodes the genome-wide regulatory network that underlies RNA temporal dynamics by coupling scalable single-cell genomics with high-throughput genetic perturbations, or manipulations that can influence gene function.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
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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It was owned by PH Manners Wood, who interpreted decoded enigma messages at Bletchley Park during World War Two, and who bought the car in the same year Bond first hit the big screen.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Two months later, in a recorded call, an inmate in Rodriguez’s module read off the string of numbers that were later decoded to be a request for Pringles, according to investigators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Seales' team decoded surviving portions of a Herculaneum scroll known as PHerc.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 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
Each parent contributed a set of instructions, which were decoded to create a child.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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This skill helps support decoding, the process of working out how written words are pronounced.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study found that understanding spoken language requires more than just decoding words.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
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 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
She didn’t know how to start decoding this—not that she wanted to solve it or would turn in her solution if she figured it out.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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