How to Use decoder in a Sentence

decoder

noun
  • The decoder’s function is in some sense like that of the spinal cord.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Feb. 2012
  • All guest rooms have closed captioning on TVs or a decoder.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But users need software components on both encoder side and decoder side.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Your destiny may be written in your genes, but researchers are still struggling with the decoder ring.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2010
  • But this winter has seen a spate of hyper specific breakup anthems that don’t need decoder rings.
    — Vulture, 1 Aug. 2022
  • There’s also a new display engine, twice the system cache, and a new video encoder as well as a new decoder.
    — Zach Epstein, BGR, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Some of Chip Kelly's coaching mantras have required a decoder.
    — Ben Bolch, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • But some outstanding questions, such as how the decoder might work in someone who is paralyzed, linger.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2019
  • With a cheap decoder, Saudis (and other Arabs) can watch with only a slight delay.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • The rest of the special gives its young viewers a decoder ring for those messages, and permission to disregard them.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • But especially when there was something unusual or unhealthy, your past is the decoder for their present.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
  • This decoder should be a framework that stress-tests ideas by establishing clear criteria for judgment.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The decoder on the receiving end knows that any numbers diverging from the graph have been altered in transmission.
    — John Horgan, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2016
  • The core instruction decoder width and the number of ALUs were increased.
    — Kevin Krewell, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • The chip will contain the usual media block of dedicated encoders and decoders for motion video.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2018
  • State-of-the-art brain signal decoders would correlate neural firing patterns with what the subjects were seeing.
    — Elizabeth Finkel, Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Now, computers could play back reasonably high-quality songs from small files using software decoders.
    — ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
  • There’s no word on ICE having a special decoder ring that tracks only the criminals.
    — Tressie McMillan Cottom, Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The decoder can’t guess each word precisely, but the overall similarity in meaning has still stunned its creators.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2023
  • Thankfully, Malik posted a shirtless pic of himself last week, which is a helpful decoder ring in this mystery.
    — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 6 June 2018
  • Lone Star has even launched dual decoder apps in the iTunes and Android stores for users struggling with their harder bottle caps.
    — John Boyd, Houston Chronicle, 7 July 2018
  • The electrodes recorded neural signals and sent them to a speech decoder, which translated the signals into the words the man intended to say.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Can Notre Dame run as much single-high safety without Watts operating as a decoder ring at the back?
    — Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Hackers could exploit this mistake to force the decoder to execute malicious code that otherwise would be off-limits.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 21 Apr. 2022
  • If the decoder is too slow, the quantum processor may improve in theory while still failing in practice because the classical side cannot keep pace.
    — Karl Freund, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • Finally, the decoder translates the results back into real-world weather variables.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Krasa’s team simply trained their decoder to recognize a password patients had to imagine speaking in their heads to activate the prosthesis.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Each tasted different from the other, and after looking at the decoder, even more flavors began to come forward, like buttery toffee, juicy peach, and red wine.
    — Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Poor little Annie didn’t have the equipment, but her secret decoder would be helpful all over the MoMA show.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023

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