unscramble
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He went 0-for-19 in the Dodgers’ last homestand, when even a game off did nothing to unscramble his mind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
She warned that allowing the merger to proceed now would make it "extraordinarily difficult to unscramble the egg" if the court decided later to block it all together.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The researchers first worked to unscramble the signals from Mr. Oskam’s brain.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 30, 2023
“The people that win are the people who make the most attempts, the ones who are able to unscramble what it is that they’re asking faster than anybody else,” Davies said.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2022
I had that feeling now, like Neil was going to walk out the door before June could unscramble the answer in her heart.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
Now, she does exercises with Sunny in which she unscrambles sentences and puts the words in the right order.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
“I spit it out and she unscrambles it. She does a great job.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
At the bottom of this page are 36 of the letter sets from the long-out-of-print “Big Book of ScrabbleGrams”; each unscrambles into a real word, but of course we don’t care about that.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2022
End-to-end encryption is technology that scrambles messages on your phone and unscrambles them only on the recipients’ phones, which means anyone who intercepts the messages in between can’t read them.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2021
"Wouldn't It Be Nice/You Still Believe in Me" , the line runs, before our brain unscrambles the rest of the offering, "God Only Knows", "Sloop John B" and the others.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 16, 2010
Infecting smartphones or other gadgets being used for WhatsApp messages meant the content of messages encrypted during transmission could be accessed after they were unscrambled.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
We may, for instance, receive a text that tells us what the spy is wearing, but it will need to be unscrambled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
Only the recipient can see the unscrambled message.
From Fox News ● Jan. 11, 2021
Consider phone networks: your calls share space with others through a technique called multiplexing - data gets time stamped, scrambled up, and unscrambled at the other end.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2019
When Johnny saw Sissy, his poor mixed-up brain unscrambled for a minute and he grabbed her arm.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
With the imminent publication of his final book titled "Magpie Murders," eagle-eyed readers would realize that unscrambling the first letters for each novel in the detective series would spell out "AN ANAGRAM."
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022
Then, once one knows the colors, it’s simply a matter of unscrambling one’s guesses until they’re in the right order.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2022
One group completed a task that included unscrambling words in sentences containing words such as “analyze” and “rational,” which primed them to think more analytically.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 2020
But coded messages are harder to discern, particularly by policy teams that have not invested in unscrambling them.
From The Verge ● Aug. 20, 2020
It said the establishment of two-way communication was very difficult and read from a script about social history, to give us practice in unscrambling it.
From The Machine That Saved The World by Murray Leinster
