decipherment

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But in a distracted, memory-stunted age, they require new interpreters, curators from different backgrounds and perhaps artists, as decipherers, analysts, able to link the present to the past.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2020

Leave it for Mr Wriothesley, the prince of decipherers.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2020

Not to mention enough cryptic symbols, pop-culture references and recurring motifs to keep the online decipherers busy.

From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2019

In this work he had followed the method which had always been used by decipherers previously.

From Sketches New and Old, Part 3. by Twain, Mark

At all events, there were certain animate objects who were delighted to see us, or we must have been very bad decipherers of the human countenance.

From Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars by Robertson, T.