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cipher

[sahy-fer] / ˈsaɪ fər /




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To make the journey work without the audiences seeing each other, Broucke used a mathematical application called a Caesar cipher, created by the Roman general to send encrypted messages.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 2, 2026

But he has been a cipher when it comes to the administration’s military “excursions,” as Trump calls them, and has reportedly even been exiled from the makeshift Mar-a-Lago situation room.

From Salon Mar. 16, 2026

Finally, Marilyn is not presented as a cipher to be solved or quarry to be caged.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 20, 2026

The Cybertruck has become a cipher for this injustice.

From Slate Jun. 22, 2025

By then, you might guess that you’re typing on a very sophisticated cipher machine.

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

Though it is reassuring that it uses well-known and community-reviewed ciphers.

From Salon Mar. 21, 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

“Actually, I’m looking for books about ciphers or making up codes,” James said.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

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

A Coincidence.—I was once reading the lessons in Kidderminster Church when the organ ciphered, and one note went piping on all the time I was reading.

From Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How by Frederick Douglas How

“They will occupy historians of Britain and Europe and students of the French language and early modern ciphering techniques for many years to come,” he said.

From New York Times Feb. 8, 2023

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

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




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