unscramble

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Recent Examples of unscramble Cryptographic keys scramble data so that only someone with the correct key can unscramble it. Yashas Hariprasad, Space.com, 6 Aug. 2025 Everyone had to balance a vase on a wheelbarrow over some obstacles and then use a bunch of blocks to unscramble a word and make an arch puzzle. Brian Moylan, Vulture, 8 May 2025 With end-to-end encryption, every user of an encrypted chat app holds the unique code to unscramble a message sent to that account. Kevin Collier, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024 With an encrypted message, the sender and recipient share a key that unscrambles its contents. IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2014 See All Example Sentences for unscramble
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscramble
Verb
  • Efforts are now underway to organize residents and explore legal options.
    Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The 21st Arbor Day celebration was organized by Harford County to plant native trees throughout the County.
    The Aegis, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Players will have to decipher a puzzle with clues from another player.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The clicks are part of a growing sperm whale phonetic alphabet that researchers at CETI are deciphering.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • There's text messages about ordering ethylene glycol.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, supreme commander of the Luftwaffe, Hitler’s second in command, and the highest-ranking surviving Nazi leader, steps out of the car, stands at attention to announce his surrender, and orders the soldiers to carry his bags.
    Alice Kaplan, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Yet behind that shine lies a hiring world that often feels closed, complex, and difficult to decode.
    William Jones, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The original bill, House Bill 253, would ban teachers from using three-cueing, a method of teaching that encourages students to guess unfamiliar words based on pictures or context clues, rather than decode the words phonetically.
    Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The fire is classified as accidental.
    Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • By classifying sports betting as a public health issue and imposing rigid federal standards, the proposal also significantly limits the autonomy of the states, which have been primarily responsible for the legalization and regulation of this sector since 2018.
    Cláudia Nunes, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Well, any information that’s ever been transmitted on the Internet is a lost cause—because even if it was encrypted, an opponent could have downloaded and saved it for a future where quantum computers can decrypt any of the old methods.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2026
  • WhatsApp and Signal are best known for using end-to-end encryption, which can prevent even the messaging services themselves from decrypting user chats.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 9 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The concierge specializes in Kyoto’s cultural events, and can help access exclusive ochaya with an interpreter, score tickets to the theater, book dinner reservations, a huge help in Kyoto, or help arrange meetings with monks and priests at the city’s Shinto shrines and temples.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Apr. 2026
  • These could be arranged into longer, songlike sequences that played automatically.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Press slices of sandwich bread into muffin tins and crack a whole egg into each.
    Victoria Spencer, Martha Stewart, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The numbers were burners, created only a day before the robbery, but logs of text messages and phone calls cracked open other leads and helped signal to police that the cases were related, according to documents reviewed by the Chronicle.
    Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026

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“Unscramble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscramble. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.

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