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
An agent working for a consumer can also flag junk fees, catch unauthorized charges, decode fine print and steer its owner away from predatory products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Ideally, it’s an ongoing relationship with a doctor who can take the time to decode why, for instance, that pain in your toe might be a warning of a serious heart condition.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
A museum curator helped decode the 1984 train timetable.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
There were things to look for, an unspoken language of movement and form to decipher, passwords to exchange, and glances to decode.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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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
This part of the brain, called Wernicke’s area, is the part that “hears” and decodes language.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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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
Scientists said Crinkle had become the first of her species, which is endangered in the wild, to have her complete genetic code decoded.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
The idea that flavor must be earned, decoded and unlocked.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025
“This time, miraculously, I understood. I decoded their speech. I penetrated the words and understood what was happening inside.”
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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"Broad abilities such as comprehension-knowledge and auditory processing played strong, specific roles in reading beyond general intelligence, especially for decoding and comprehension."
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
Enveda said it found the drug by decoding the chemistry released by the body during intense physical activity, identifying a hormone that naturally suppresses appetite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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
In January 1941, Elizebeth and her team started decoding messages from an unlicensed radio station.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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