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a collection or system of rules of conduct
Hammurabi was an ancient king of Babylon with a famous code of laws the tax code
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Recent Examples of code
Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 15 July 2025
Developers create detailed manuals outlining their preferred ethical stances, which either human reviewers or AI systems then use as a rubric to evaluate and improve the chatbot's responses, effectively coding these values into the machine.
—CBS News, 15 July 2025
Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
The login portal displays a QR code, which the phishing site immediately captures and relays back to the user on the fake site.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 18 July 2025
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Noun
Some are former military personnel with little coding experience who are paid barely more than minimum wage for the work.
—Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 15 July 2025
Developers create detailed manuals outlining their preferred ethical stances, which either human reviewers or AI systems then use as a rubric to evaluate and improve the chatbot's responses, effectively coding these values into the machine.
—CBS News, 15 July 2025
Verb
Ai-Da was built by Engineered Arts, an English maker of humanoid robots, and programmed by an international team with a code unique to her.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
The login portal displays a QR code, which the phishing site immediately captures and relays back to the user on the fake site.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 18 July 2025
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In 1965: In a landmark moment for health care, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed amendments to the Social Securities Act of 1935 into law, creating two federal health programs: Medicare and Medicaid.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
31 July 2025
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Tuscaloosa's first brewpub, opening after Alabama passed a 2009 gourmet beer law, spotlights musicians, writers and other artists in its Moon Room, serves stylized pub food with indoor-outdoor dining and offers classic pinball, video and board games inside.—
Susan Stapleton,
The Tennessean,
31 July 2025
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The white supremacists who wrote the Texas constitutions of 1866 and 1876 ensured that schooling for Black and white students remained inherently separate and unequal.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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Why does a judge swear to discharge his duties agreeably to the constitution of the United States, if that constitution forms no rule for his government?—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
29 July 2025
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This overcoming is explicitly encoded in the liturgy: Receiving the Eucharist is a reunion with the body of Christ.—
Terry Nguyen
July 23,
Literary Hub,
23 July 2025
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The genes of many viruses are encoded in RNA, which was not studied during this project.—
Christian Thorsberg,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 July 2025
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By default, Claude encrypts personal user data, and Anthropic employees can't access it outside special circumstances, such as enforcement of Claude’s usage policy.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
7 July 2025
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Together, among other things, the group hopes to cancel all consumer debt by encrypting all the data of one of the biggest corporations in the world, and Allsafe's largest client — E Corp (or, as Elliot refers to it, Evil Corp).—
Lauren Huff,
EW.com,
4 July 2025
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“Code.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
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