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The KGB, which never cracked the cipher, probably felt it had won at the moment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Even being in a writer’s room for “Beef” Season 2 — that was my first writer’s room — felt like a cipher.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

Frostproof became a cipher for just how untouchable the industry had become.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Each letter in a standard Caesar cipher is replaced by the one three spots down the alphabet so an ‘A’ becomes a ‘D.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

You can also take Bacon’s cipher and express it using 0 for a and 1 for b.

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

The love he once had for baseball he now felt for a strange and mysterious place that was as old as history itself yet as secretive as the classical ciphers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

They were challenged to embed hidden codes, and ciphers into their designs.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

But I am calling for a little more emotional clarity from the adults who condemn these students for being imperfect ciphers of morality.

From Slate ● May 2, 2024

Waldman and Schaller believe that rural white people are functioning adults who have agency and are not the childlike ciphers of Fox News.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2024

These mixes of codes and ciphers were a headache to crack.

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

You can let a computer create various passwords and convert them into ciphered values using known hash functions.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 13, 2023

Also known as Mary Stuart, the then deposed queen of Scotland, who was a contender for the English throne, wrote these 57 ciphered letters between 1578 and 1584.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 8, 2023

The ciphered letters were believed to be Italian.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 8, 2023

But they were stumped by the even more complex ciphered messages being transmitted among Hitler and the generals Erwin Rommel, Wilhelm Keitel, Gerd von Rundstedt and Alfred Jodl.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2014

Mr. Jay will, of course, communicate to you some ciphered letters lately written, and one of this date.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

He used intricate script to write in a ciphering book, which was kept by students of the day to progress through the entirety of their mathematics education.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 2021

He expressed his ciphering talent in an addendum to a letter his wife wrote on July 14, 1897.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2021

This reminds us of when some big, musty steamer trunk of a bill gets plopped down in Congress and the poor folks at the Congressional Budget Office get to ciphering.

From Fox News ● May 5, 2020

“You can tell that when me and Rondo are ciphering through our Rolodex of mental basketball capacity that those guys are like, ‘OK, what are you all talking about?’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2018

I liked ciphering all right, but I didn’t care much for spelling and studying the Bible and memorizing psalms.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier