decode
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She has learned to decode nutrition labels and developed a taste for salads and nuts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 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
But it might take some time to decode them.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
He sees this as a bigger challenge but says advances in AI will speed up development, helping researchers decode ever more complex thoughts and make brain-computer interfaces more sophisticated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
There was a look in her eyes— dark, sharp, set under papery wrinkled lids—that Christopher could not begin to decode.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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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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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
Royal meaning must often be decoded, and the King will have wanted to avoid offending his host.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 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
Yet no one can say they’ve decisively decoded what the show is trying to tell us.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 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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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
“I’m all about decoding the rhythms of the music,” she adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
Scientists have spent years decoding the honey bee "waggle dance," a highly sophisticated form of communication.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 24, 2026
It abandoned the hokum that convinced educators that they could teach kids to read through pictures and context clues rather than decoding words.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Peris hadn’t given an address, but Tally knew the trick for decoding the random-looking numbers at the bottom of a ping.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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