decode
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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
Ideally, it’s an ongoing relationship with a doctor who can take the time to decode why, for instance, that pain in your toe might be a warning of a serious heart condition.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 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
For someone who knew the system and had the right code books, it wasn’t too hard to work backward and decode the radio message.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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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
“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
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Seales' team decoded surviving portions of a Herculaneum scroll known as PHerc.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 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
"We have essentially decoded how the body converts movement into stronger bones," said Professor Xu Aimin.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 27, 2026
The idea that flavor must be earned, decoded and unlocked.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025
To find out where you can read a decoded version of the letter, see Note 2 on page 172.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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Enveda said it found the drug by decoding the chemistry released by the body during intense physical activity, identifying a hormone that naturally suppresses appetite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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 data now available allow increasingly precise stellar ages to serve as powerful tools for decoding the story of the Milky Way, ushering in a new era of discovery about our home Galaxy."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026
“I’m all about decoding the rhythms of the music,” she adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
The unfurling of an embryo; the reach of a plant toward sunlight; the ritual dance of bees—every biological activity required the decoding of coded instructions.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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