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Recent Examples of encipher
The digitized voice and key were enciphered by modulo six addition.
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IEEE Spectrum, 25 Jan. 2019
To protect sensitive communications traveling along public pathways, the senders enciphered—or encrypted—their words, often using machines that could replace each letter with a new letter.
—Liza Mundy, Time, 10 Oct. 2017
IEEE Spectrum, 25 Jan. 2019
To protect sensitive communications traveling along public pathways, the senders enciphered—or encrypted—their words, often using machines that could replace each letter with a new letter.
—Liza Mundy, Time, 10 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for encipher
Verb
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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.—
Tor Constantino,
Forbes.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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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).—
STEPHEN NASH,
New York Times,
25 July 2017
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However, selection of data to encrypt must be done carefully, lest this method be subverted by AI or fall short of regulatory requirements.—
Srinivas Shekar,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Secure your internet traffic by enabling a VPN to encrypt your data in transit.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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These tiny changes in distance encode a tremendous amount of information about their source.—
Chad Hanna,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2025
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This broader engagement helps students encode information more effectively.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The company’s new system, AlphaGenome, is the first large-scale application of AI to decode 98% of our DNA that does not code for proteins.—
Miguel Llorca,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Acutis was precociously savvy with computers before the social media era, reading college-level textbooks on programming and coding as a youngster.—
Jessie Wardarski,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Encipher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encipher. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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