as in law
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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Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
2 July 2026
While no layoffs were proposed, the city froze hiring for several positions, including animal control officer, code enforcement officer, and senior civil engineer.
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Hema Sivanandam,
Mercury News,
2 July 2026
New Atlas,
14 May 2026
Programmers had to find ways to code equations as efficiently as possible.
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Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
12 May 2026
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Noun
This command executes malicious code inside the AppleScript directly.
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Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
2 July 2026
While no layoffs were proposed, the city froze hiring for several positions, including animal control officer, code enforcement officer, and senior civil engineer.
—
Hema Sivanandam,
Mercury News,
2 July 2026
Verb
Is learning to code on your bucket list?
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New Atlas,
14 May 2026
Programmers had to find ways to code equations as efficiently as possible.
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Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
12 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for code
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Beginning Monday, the focus shifts to whether there is enough evidence for a trial and if the death penalty is warranted, said Paul Cassell, a University of Utah law professor and former federal judge.
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And even though Georgia law does not require this, all cyclists and scooterists should wear helmets.
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The real challenge from AI will likely emerge in the weeks and months ahead as firms cipher through Judge Mehta’s enforcement of behavioral requirements.
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These remnants, signals from an earlier phase of our human condition, have been endlessly ciphered by generations of archaeologists in the Bears Ears region (which is named for twin buttes near its center).
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Under Venezuela’s constitution, temporary absences are to be filled by the vice president — which was Rodríguez’s former role — for up to 90 days, after which they can be extended by the national assembly for an additional 90 days.
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In 2023, the New Mexico Supreme Court struck down this misguided rule, thereby restoring the public’s stream-access rights enshrined in the state constitution.
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Their tiny synthetic genome did not encode any metabolic genes, which would let the cell process food and energy, or many of the complex molecules a cell needs.
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Do the formal vocabularies that are supposed to encode my field actually capture how the people in it think?
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Even the consumer-level codes that encrypt your online banking are so hard to break that every computer on the planet working together would need longer than the age of the universe to brute-force them apart.
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Most cloud computing services encrypt data in transit and at rest.
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“Code.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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