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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
Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 12 June 2025
Tension builds as personal loyalties clash with underworld codes against the storied Sicilian backdrop of Corleone.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 12 June 2025
Ina Fried, Axios, 23 May 2025
Google claims Gemini Diffusion is capable of previously unheard-of accuracy in complex math and coding.
—Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 20 May 2025
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Noun
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—Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 12 June 2025
Tension builds as personal loyalties clash with underworld codes against the storied Sicilian backdrop of Corleone.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 12 June 2025
Verb
One of Anthropic's latest AI models is drawing attention not just for its coding skills, but also for its ability to scheme, deceive and attempt to blackmail humans when faced with shutdown.
—Ina Fried, Axios, 23 May 2025
Google claims Gemini Diffusion is capable of previously unheard-of accuracy in complex math and coding.
—Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for code
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Oyun-Erdene’s supporters say his ouster had three drivers: Firstly, and with a dash of irony, his relentless pursuit of official graft, including a draft law his cabinet just submitted that would compel all public officials to justify their income.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
13 June 2025
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Newsom said in a court filing on Thursday that troops had moved beyond those allowable duties to actively assist ICE agents in making arrests, in violation of a federal law known as the Posse Comitatus Act, which is designed to prevent the military from being used as a domestic police force.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
13 June 2025
Noun
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Jean Duhon Hanson Dundee ICE agents must take responsibility for their actions Our country is capitulating to an ideology that says the police state is more important than any freedom guaranteed in our constitution.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 June 2025
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Already in existence before the Constitution arrived, state governments often did in their constitutions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
Verb
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Our findings suggest that this early dominance of the right hemisphere in encoding sound information might amplify its control of auditory processing, deepening the imbalance between hemispheres.—
Hysell V. Oviedo,
The Conversation,
4 June 2025
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Others face bottlenecks in data loading, where the overhead of encoding classical data into quantum states outweighs any downstream quantum advantage.—
Paul Lipman,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Just a ghost in the RAM, stealing data or encrypting files until the system reboots.—
Camellia Chan,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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The first order of business is to make sure your smartphone’s contents are encrypted.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
12 June 2025
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“Code.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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