How to Use encode in a Sentence

encode

verb
  • Credit cards are encoded with cardholder information.
  • So, some of the grammatical rules of math are about encoding deep truths.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2024
  • One finding is that the koala has an unusual number of genes that encode for enzymes that can break down toxins in leaves.
    Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 2 July 2018
  • The researchers wanted to identify genes that encode a protein and those that don’t but still serve an important role in cells.
    Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 19 June 2018
  • Mitochondria were simply parts of the cell, their construction encoded by the cell’s own genes.
    Carl Zimmer, STAT, 30 May 2018
  • Frequently, such SNPs are not even in the bits of the genome that directly encode proteins.
    The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • These special adaptations are encoded in the genome and passed down from generation to generation.
    Rachael Bay, CBS News, 29 May 2018
  • Kazansky and his team transcribed the human genome using ultra-fast lasers that encoded the data into tiny voids in silica as small as 20 nanometers.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Going this route, however, requires you to give Amazon the ability to open your garage, which will be encoded into the label on your package for one-time use.
    Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2024
  • The consortium’s chief task is to set the Unicode Standard that gives order to the way text is encoded and represented in the world’s writing systems.
    Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 28 June 2018
  • People rarely stop and think about it, but our evolutionary heritage is actually encoded in our doors and staircases, our signs and signals, our cupboards and our corridors.
    Adam Stanton, Scientific American, 5 June 2018
  • When data is encoded into effects like those, some normal limitations on conventional computers fall away.
    Tom Simonite, WIRED, 25 June 2018
  • When the team deleted the genes that encode key parts of the tailocin, the killing went away.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 June 2024
  • To encode that, the brain has to do something less direct.
    Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2019
  • In this view, we must have been somehow encoded in the first moments of the universe.
    Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • The filter won’t detect the same pattern in the data or encode the same feature map.
    Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2020
  • If only 1 to 2 percent of the RNA from our genome was encoding proteins, what was the rest for?
    Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
  • For now, users who encode a lot of video throughout their day are likely the best target for Xe Max.
    Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2020
  • These are treated with a group of drugs that block the protein the mutant EGFR gene encodes for, slowing the cancer’s growth.
    Monika Joshi, The Conversation, 1 May 2023
  • The debate over whether to encode the transmissions is playing out across the country.
    Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
  • When input in the form of light flows into the chip, the output light encodes data from complex tasks.
    IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Once those mistakes were encoded in the dance, the teacherless bees repeated the errors for the rest of their lives.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • If only 1 to 2 percent of this RNA was encoding proteins, what was the rest for?
    Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
  • Aaron has spent the past 13 years optimizing the way Netflix encodes its movies and TV shows.
    Janko Roettgers, The Verge, 22 June 2024
  • Incentives are way too far in the future to give you that all-important shot of dopamine that encodes the new habit.
    Bj Fogg, Time, 30 Dec. 2019
  • As one species changes, the other may change in response, and these changes can even become encoded in their genes.
    Jacob S. Suissa, The Conversation, 20 June 2024
  • At the same time, most of the genetic differences among the VC2 genes occur in the proteins that encode the legs, which latch on to these sugars.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 June 2024
  • The human genome has three billion base pairs in its DNA, but only about 2% of them encode proteins.
    Quanta Magazine, 1 Sep. 2021
  • For now, the patches can only encode a handful of simple shapes.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2019
  • But even within the parts of genes that encode proteins, the precise sequence shouldn't matter all that much.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 June 2022

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