codes

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Driver’s ex-cop knows the codes of cutting deals with the Russian mob; Teller’s engineer is the square who can’t grasp how doing things the right way just makes the situation worse.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

People relied less on religious authorities and more on the meaning they could create from “available images, symbols, moral codes, and doctrines.”

From Salon • May 17, 2026

The legislation would relax building codes to allow construction of more apartment buildings with single stairways, instead of the two stairways often required.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Pennsylvania, Mississippi, and Alabama have never allowed the exclusion to be taken for state taxes largely because of the way their tax codes conform with federal law.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Besides, they had more than enough to do already, creating codes and breaking messages for their own services.

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