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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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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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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 3 Jun. 2025.
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