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decode

[dee-kohd] / diˈkoʊd /


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Financial advisers may want to flaunt what they’ve learned after years of study, leaving clients trying to decode what feels like a new language.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

But while her lyrics describe situations both grave and dangerous—the record’s title is a homophone for “violence”—her words are peppered with bizarre humor and images that aren’t easy to decode.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

They try to decode world events, looking for clues that the promised day of “awakening” has arrived.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

But the global superstar - known for long-game teases and hidden Easter eggs that fans love to decode - has been coy on details of her wedding to American football star, Travis Kelce.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

It’s like she has to decode everything first.

From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar

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

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

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 team also hopes to explore how these decoded signals could be used to activate implanted stimulators in patients recovering from spinal cord injuries.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 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

This skill helps support decoding, the process of working out how written words are pronounced.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study found that understanding spoken language requires more than just decoding words.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

The company promises Ising will deliver up to three times higher accuracy for the decoding process central to quantum error correction.

From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026

“What we have here is called a ciphertext. When decoding a secret message like this, letter frequency analysis is a good place to start.”

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman


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