decipher

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Their goal was not to decipher the symbols, which remain undecoded, but to measure their structural properties.

From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 2026

"It's hard to decipher what's real and what's not, what's true and what's not true -- people arguing over the exact same video and saying 'this happened, no, that happened.'"

From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026

Carmel-by-the-Sea has long had its own dispatch center, with workers trained to decipher people’s descriptions of where they live, former Police Chief Paul Tomasi told The Times in 2024.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

That said, economists and central bankers have an ongoing intellectual debate to decipher whether AI is indeed the reason for the rise in productivity.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026

At one point, he was even asked to decipher radio signals thought to come from Mars.

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