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decode

[dee-kohd] / diˈkoʊd /


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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

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

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

"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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