decode
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Online shopping, says Charlotte, “is something I avoid, especially as I get older — I just don’t have the patience to decode the sizing differences of four different brands selling basically the same shirt.”
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
A museum curator helped decode the 1984 train timetable.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
She has learned to decode nutrition labels and developed a taste for salads and nuts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
Cerebras claims its chips process AI model decode tasks up to 25 times faster than Nvidia’s GPUs, offering a premium service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
That was a good cipher, though it took me a bit to decode it.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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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
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
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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Following France's quarter-final exit on home soil at the last Rugby World Cup, it emerged that South Africa's coaches had decoded one of their tactical calls, external before a 29-28 win.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 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 TV guide helpfully decoded what I was watching: a film called “Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains,” and it was showing on Night Flight.
From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2026
Two months later, an inmate in Rodriguez’s module read off the string of numbers that were later decoded to be a request for Pringles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2025
But once transposed into RNA, how was a gene’s “message” decoded into a protein?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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“I’m all about decoding the rhythms of the music,” she adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
Exxon’s algae work was done in conjunction with Synthetic Genomics, a company founded by Craig Venter, a pioneer in decoding the human genome, that later operated under the name Viridos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Scientists have spent years decoding the honey bee "waggle dance," a highly sophisticated form of communication.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 24, 2026
In the journal Nature, Microsoft's research arm said Silica was the first glass storage technology that had been demonstrated to be reliable for writing, reading and decoding data.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
And as I’m watching her lips, working at decoding her words, she adds, “I was a little worried.”
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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