How to Use unscramble in a Sentence

unscramble

verb
  • We weren't able to unscramble the satellite signal.
  • By twisting the sides, the cube’s colours can be scrambled and unscrambled.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • Young’s heirs were, by the time of the exhibit, enmeshed in a bid to unscramble what had happened.
    — Deirdra Funcheon, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2020
  • See who can unscramble the most words in this printable all about Thanksgiving.
    — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Thus, the most straightforward attempt to unscramble the omelet faltered.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But Sanborn says unscrambling that phrase won't exactly lead you to a quick victory.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Disentangling itself while determining new rules is a process that has been likened to unscrambling an omelet.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The passwords at such sites are scrambled for security, so attackers have to make lots of guesses to unscramble them.
    — Lorrie Cranor, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Each puzzle asked the user to unscramble a word and then type the answer into the search bar to solve the exercise and move onto the next puzzle.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Cryptographic keys scramble data so that only someone with the correct key can unscramble it.
    — Yashas Hariprasad, Space.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Because your descendants must wait for the second detector to be triggered, there’s no way to unscramble the message before its time.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2016
  • Few legal strokes would be as disruptive, yet fully avoidable, as trying to unscramble the Obergefell omelet.
    — Walter Olson, WSJ, 8 July 2018
  • The psychologists split the volunteers into three groups, each of which had to unscramble some words before doing the puzzle.
    — Tom Chivers, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Bringing soldiers onto the Cape Flats is too little and too late to unscramble the political omelette.
    — Don Pinnock, Quartz Africa, 16 Aug. 2019
  • In time, her abilities helped her rise to become a cryptographer, unscrambling messages from the German navy.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Unscrambling the mystery that is hitting a baseball, traveling at up to 100 mph, is Doherty's life's work.
    — Dom Amore, courant.com, 14 June 2017
  • Only after receiving payment do the criminals provide software keys that unscramble the data.
    — Fox News, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Next, the participants had 20 minutes to unscramble as many words as possible from four sets of seven anagrams displayed on a computer screen.
    — Katie Mogg, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Are backup copies of your messages automatically encrypted, with no option for the app company to unscramble them?
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
  • But uncertainty over what happens in the weeks ahead, as well as the complexity of unscrambling the blockage created by the closure of the strait, will continue to affect gasoline prices.
    — Daniel Yergin, Time, 20 June 2026
  • Former Sentinel columnist Jim Robison once tried to unscramble the tangle and in the process cited plenty of examples.
    — Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Then the collaboration met in Hawai‘i last December to unscramble the results and see what sort of map the Kitt Peak robotic fibers had observed.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The number of ransomware attacks, in which cybercriminals secretly encrypt an organization's data and then demand payment to unscramble it, has surged in recent years.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Ransomware attacks, in which cyber criminals encrypt an organization’s data and then demand payment to unscramble it, are a growing scourge in the United States.
    — Michelle Chapman, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2021
  • In ransomware attacks, cybercriminals encrypt an organization's data and then demand payment to unscramble it.
    — CBS News, 14 Feb. 2022
  • That attack used ransomware — where hackers use malware to scramble a victim’s files and then demand money to unscramble them — to infect businesses, banks, hospitals, and schools in more than 150 countries.
    — Alex Ward, Vox, 17 July 2019
  • The criminals leave instructions on infected computers for how to negotiate ransom payments and, once paid, provide software decryption keys to unscramble the victim's data.
    — Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2021
  • Ransomware gangs encrypt crucial data on a victim’s computer network and then demand a ransom, which can run into the millions of dollars, usually payable in Bitcoin, in return for a key to unscramble the data.
    — Adrian Croft, Fortune, 10 May 2021
  • It was hit by what Colonial called a ransomware attack, in which hackers typically lock up computer systems by encrypting data and paralyzing networks, then demand a large ransom to unscramble it.
    — CBS News, 10 May 2021
  • It was hit by what Colonial called a ransomware attack, in which hackers typically lock up computer systems by encrypting data, paralyzing networks, and then demand a large ransom to unscramble it.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2021

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