as in law
a collection or system of rules of conduct
Hammurabi was an ancient king of Babylon with a famous code of laws the tax code
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Recent Examples of code
Cnbc Make It Staff, CNBC, 19 May 2025
Follow these directions and register using your full legal name, birthdate, home address, then turn the location settings on with your device and apply the BetMGM bonus code at the proper time.
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 May 2025
Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 13 May 2025
The aspiring app developers of today no longer have to be fluent in coding.
—Angela Yang, NBC news, 13 May 2025
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Noun
Every course is now 30% off the regular course price (plus tax) for Memorial Day using coupon code MEMORIAL at checkout from May 19 to June 2.
—Cnbc Make It Staff, CNBC, 19 May 2025
Follow these directions and register using your full legal name, birthdate, home address, then turn the location settings on with your device and apply the BetMGM bonus code at the proper time.
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 May 2025
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Founders and engineers told me that with today’s AI products, many years of Ph.D. work would have been reduced to just one, and a day’s worth of coding could be done with a single prompt.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 13 May 2025
The aspiring app developers of today no longer have to be fluent in coding.
—Angela Yang, NBC news, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for code
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Recently, however, legal scholars, historians, and journalists writing on the Fugitive Slave Law have examined its contemporary influence on, and parallels to, present-day immigration law.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
19 May 2025
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Michigan’s no-fault car insurance laws and a high percentage of uninsured drivers make car insurance in this state expensive.—
Liz Knueven,
CNBC,
19 May 2025
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Some saw personhood as politically impractical, especially after personhood amendments to state constitutions were rejected by voters in Colorado, Mississippi and North Dakota between 2008 and 2014.—
Kate Brumback,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2025
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The temporary constitution signed by al-Sharaa in March guarantees basic freedoms such as freedoms of opinion, expression and the press.—
Chris Massaro,
FOXNews.com,
13 May 2025
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DSLRs and mirrorless cameras kept up with each other in terms of resolution, frame rates, color depth, and encoding quality as the years progressed, but mirrorless cameras took a huge lead in autofocus with the advent of on-sensor phase detection.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
20 May 2025
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Once nine of these gene clusters were identified, the DNA that would encode them was ordered and assembled into a single DNA molecule in yeast.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 May 2025
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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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“Code.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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