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Fans were left to unscramble the letters into 12 cities: Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Milan, London, Melbourne, Santa Monica, New York, Nashville, Chicago, Beverly Grove and Las Vegas.—
Bryan West,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Oct. 2025 -
That disappointment did not stop Burton from dominating the second chances contest, which ended with him unscrambling the pirate term Jolly Roger before any of the other players could even get out of their previous stage jail cells.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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To decrypt the message, the receiver has to use the same key to reverse the operation.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Jan. 2026
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Instead of extorting money to decrypt data in a company’s own system, an attacker can just threaten to release sensitive data if the ransom isn’t paid.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Robert Graysmith, the real-life political cartoonist who attempted to decode the infamous serial killer's messages and went down numerous rabbit holes for years.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Jan. 2026
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The motion follows a precise encoding scheme that researchers can decode by watching through a microscope.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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As an avalanche and dead bodies ratchet up the suspense, Zach must lean on his mother’s wisdom to fight for his life while deciphering a confusing undercurrent of danger, violence and betrayal among the survivors.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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But this can be tricky to decipher without a medical degree.—
Korin Miller,
Flow Space,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Descramble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descramble. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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