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Recent Examples of encipher
Photo: Mark Richards Code Maker: One of Spicer’s favorite artifacts is this World War II German enciphering machine, called the Enigma.
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IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2011
The digitized voice and key were enciphered by modulo six addition.
—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, 27 Apr. 2011
The digitized voice and key were enciphered by modulo six addition.
—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
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What’s left is like a digital barcode for your eyeball that’s encrypted, split into pieces, and scattered across a decentralized network, kind of like a glitter bomb.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
2 May 2025
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Regardless of that, Signal is a commercially available app that is encrypted but is not a government network and not authorized to carry classified information.—
Tara Copp,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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Instead, it may be based on billions of micro-decisions encoded in massive matrices.—
Tor Constantino,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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The team tried three methods of encoding the data, which differed in terms of how the pixels of the images were sliced up and how many qubits the resulting slices were sent to.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
11 Apr. 2025
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Microsoft announced a GitHub Copilot coding agent — which acts as a fully asynchronous coding agent that can write, run and test code — that the analyst believes could attract more productivity-hungry customers.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
20 May 2025
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Google claims Gemini Diffusion is capable of previously unheard-of accuracy in complex math and coding.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
20 May 2025
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“Encipher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encipher. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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