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unscrambling

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verb

present participle of unscramble

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Noun
  • Brains guiding machines To make the system practical, the researchers built an adaptive decoding model that learns general brain patterns and then adjusts to individual users.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 19 Mar. 2026
  • That delay may limit applications that require fast, detailed signal decoding, such as real-time speech translation.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Whether the law survives looming legal challenges—rooted in a 1933 state Supreme Court ruling classifying income as property—remains an open question.
    Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 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
  • The clicks are part of a growing sperm whale phonetic alphabet that researchers at CETI are deciphering.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Binary neutron stars have long been considered the best bet for deciphering what lurks within.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Some ideas are about forging connections, like Luke’s insight about disentanglement.
    Dan Rockmore, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Okay, well, can someone get cracking on this?
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2026
  • When a piano tuner’s extraordinary hearing reveals a knack for cracking safes, his quiet New York routine gives way to a risky life of crime—just as the possibility of love suggests another future.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Long before Manhattan's iconic street grid took shape, an English widow laid the groundwork for a settlement in Brooklyn, arranging a small village in what would become the United States into one of the first grid patterns.
    Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But arranging spheres becomes significantly more complex in higher dimensions, which allow for more arrangements and symmetries.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The center's analysis, however, showed that in recent years gas prices don't move the needle on presidential approval ratings as much as in the past.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • In another sign that buyers may have the edge negotiating with sellers this spring, an analysis by Redfin estimates that there were about 46% more sellers than prospective buyers in the market nationally in February.
    Alex Veiga, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • Inside, advanced computer servers are decrypting hard drives and phones and tracking IP addresses tied to the fraud network.
    J.D. Miles, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
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“Unscrambling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscrambling. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.

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