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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

Tanden can reflexively rattle off the particularities of housing protocols I couldn’t begin to decode; she titters with satisfaction upon recounting the intricacies of a long-discarded Australian cap-and-trade proposal.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

An agent working for a consumer can also flag junk fees, catch unauthorized charges, decode fine print and steer its owner away from predatory products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

A museum curator helped decode the 1984 train timetable.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Lolo can’t decode the message, so finally I just read it aloud.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

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

This part of the brain, called Wernicke’s area, is the part that “hears” and decodes language.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

Two months later, in a recorded call, an inmate in Rodriguez’s module read off the string of numbers that were later decoded to be a request for Pringles, according to investigators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

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

On the receiving end, the photonic qubits were decoded with an actively stabilized interferometer containing a phase shifter, allowing the system to operate for extended periods without manual adjustment.

From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026

The TV guide helpfully decoded what I was watching: a film called “Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains,” and it was showing on Night Flight.

From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2026

He also decoded telegrams that exposed corruption in President Warren G. Harding's cabinet in 1924.

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

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 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

Exxon’s algae work was done in conjunction with Synthetic Genomics, a company founded by Craig Venter, a pioneer in decoding the human genome, that later operated under the name Viridos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

In January 1941, Elizebeth and her team started decoding messages from an unlicensed radio station.

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


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