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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

Scientists have discovered a powerful new way to decode the weather on distant worlds, revealing surprisingly organized patterns hidden within the turbulent atmosphere of a mysterious object 20 light-years from Earth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 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

Social behavior goes beyond the ability to activate the correct muscles or decode the right spoken sounds.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Ms. Allen traces pen names, decodes handwriting and deciphers marginalia in Richmond’s correspondence and books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Prof Ramesh is the principal investigator on Visible Emission Line Coronagraph, or Velc - the most important of the seven scientific instruments on Aditya-L1 - and closely monitors and decodes the data it gathers.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025

“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

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

It was owned by PH Manners Wood, who interpreted decoded enigma messages at Bletchley Park during World War Two, and who bought the car in the same year Bond first hit the big screen.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

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

Earlier work led by Dr. Wang and Professor Tom Gordon, Head of Immunology at SA Pathology in South Australia, decoded the structure of this PF4 antibody in 2022.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2026

The copilot took control of the plane while Tibbets decoded and read the notes.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

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 approach could have wide-ranging applications, from decoding genetic activity to improving weather predictions.

From Science Daily ● May 6, 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

And as I’m watching her lips, working at decoding her words, she adds, “I was a little worried.”

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen


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