decode
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They try to decode world events, looking for clues that the promised day of “awakening” has arrived.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
You had to decode quickly in order to fit in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
A museum curator helped decode the 1984 train timetable.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
But it might take some time to decode them.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
She never in a million years would have figured out how to decode James’s paragraph.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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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
“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
Another, called PerturbSci-Kinetics, developed by graduate student Zihan Xu, decodes the genome-wide regulatory network that underlies RNA temporal dynamics by coupling scalable single-cell genomics with high-throughput genetic perturbations, or manipulations that can influence gene function.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
As though the intelligence that decodes life’s hidden patterns—that connects reflections to images, glints to light, weaves to fabrics, needles to thread, walls to rooms, love to fear to anger to remorse—was suddenly lost.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Seales' team decoded surviving portions of a Herculaneum scroll known as PHerc.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
On the receiving end, the photonic qubits were decoded with an actively stabilized interferometer containing a phase shifter, allowing the system to operate for extended periods without manual adjustment.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
Royal meaning must often be decoded, and the King will have wanted to avoid offending his host.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
The result is an ode of sorts to elusive bossdom, where the cryptic may remain cryptic, decoded just enough to let us appreciate the achievement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
Intercepted and decoded by both British intelligence and the U.S.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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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
Autistic people of all genders often struggle with nuances of social communication like decoding nonverbal cues, identifying shifts in tone or asking reciprocal questions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The approach could have wide-ranging applications, from decoding genetic activity to improving weather predictions.
From Science Daily ● May 6, 2026
The second hurdle to overcome is the “software challenge” of decoding the brain’s signals and converting them to computer code.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
Tom White had no formal training as a law-enforcement officer, and he struggled to master new scientific methods, such as decoding the mystifying whorls and loops of fingerprints.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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