decipher
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Dr Helen Paul, an economic historian at the University of Southampton, was one of the experts brought in to decipher 18th Century ledgers.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
Many blockchain analytics firms help law enforcement decipher “anonymous” transactions and hunt down illicit activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
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
Even manual typewriters had been banned, for fear that eavesdroppers could somehow decipher what was being typed from the sound of the keys.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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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
The fact that the bat brainstem processes various complex acoustic signals differently can also help scientists to understand how the brain deciphers and processes complex human speech.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2024
She studies for the driver’s license test with them, deciphers public transportation for them and most of all just lets them know she is here to listen and help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2023
The brain deciphers the signals and takes action in milliseconds - a process completed every second or so for 12 or more hours a day.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
A savant unearths a manuscript in Syria, which he deciphers with marvelous industry, learning, and ingenuity.
From New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index by Various
Meadows says no one has deciphered why the vineyard produces such exquisite wines, but it is some combination of terroir, or environment, as well as 2,000 years of trial and error by the region’s winemakers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
For decades, they remained largely untouched, but researchers have now deciphered them, uncovering texts that range from magical rituals to royal records and everyday administrative notes.
From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026
But the point for Kagan in bringing up this legislative history was merely to provide “yet more proof” of statutory meaning already deciphered through “straight-up statutory construction.”
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026
The S-shaped copper sculpture has baffled cryptography enthusiasts since its 1990 installation on the grounds of the CIA headquarters in Virginia, with three of its four messages deciphered so far.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
“You deciphered the Limerick on your own, otherwise you wouldn’t even know about the Tomb of Horrors module, right?”
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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But the predicament we face in deciphering the Venetian statistics is hardly unique.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The bots also weren’t great at deciphering things like maps.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
"We are deciphering the 'identity card' of tumors, by identifying, one by one, the key variables that determine the evolution of the disease," explains Pittet.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 10, 2026
She exits her state without deciphering Paula’s words, yet feels an innate and moving satisfaction anyway, as if she could glean the meaning of what her former patient said without understanding every word.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026
It was only a matter of deciphering what they needed to find.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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