cipher

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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

The Cybertruck has become a cipher for this injustice.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025

It’s why Gere pushed for Bosko to be even more of a cipher than he was on the page.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

Since the nascent days of filmmaking, “Nosferatu” has been a sociological cipher.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2024

On government forms, she noted at least twice that she was “co-author with William F. Friedman of numerous cipher books,” by which she meant the pamphlets.

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