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Recent Examples of encrypt
In those cases, criminals break into a company, encrypt the data and demand a payment to unlock it.
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Suzanne King, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2026
Next up is the Protect Your IP Address setting, which ensures your calls are end-to-end encrypted via WhatsApp’s servers.
—Kate O'Flaherty, Wired News, 4 Jan. 2026
Berkeley’s decision to fully encrypt has been influenced by multiple factors.
—Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025
The team has since released their method on GitHub to push more satellite owners to encrypt their data.
—PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2025
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Suzanne King, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2026
Next up is the Protect Your IP Address setting, which ensures your calls are end-to-end encrypted via WhatsApp’s servers.
—Kate O'Flaherty, Wired News, 4 Jan. 2026
Berkeley’s decision to fully encrypt has been influenced by multiple factors.
—Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025
The team has since released their method on GitHub to push more satellite owners to encrypt their data.
—PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for encrypt
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Impressively, the researchers found that minute, transient voltage fluctuations in these segments encode precise velocity data.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Jan. 2026
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But the images encode all the dark matter between the far-off object and the telescope.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
25 Jan. 2026
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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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An Enigma ciphering machine that was donated to the museum by telecommunications company SIRTI.Photo: Cantalupi, Pavia One of the artifacts from SIRTI collection was a German ciphering machine used in World War II, an Enigma, Savini says.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
11 Feb. 2020
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The Puerto Rican kid who has to code switch to be taken seriously.—
Jennifer A. Marcial Ocasio,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2026
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In late January, Matt Schlicht, a tech commentator and CEO of e-commerce company Octane, instructed his agent to code a website where AI programs can talk with one another.—
Mike Dobuski,
ABC News,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Encrypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encrypt. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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