How to Use unscramble in a Sentence

unscramble

verb

• We weren't able to unscramble the satellite signal.
• By twisting the sides, the cube’s colours can be scrambled and unscrambled.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• Young’s heirs were, by the time of the exhibit, enmeshed in a bid to unscramble what had happened.
  — Deirdra Funcheon, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2020
• See who can unscramble the most words in this printable all about Thanksgiving.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2022
• Bringing soldiers onto the Cape Flats is too little and too late to unscramble the political omelette.
  — Don Pinnock, Quartz Africa, 16 Aug. 2019
• But Sanborn says unscrambling that phrase won't exactly lead you to a quick victory.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2020
• The psychologists split the volunteers into three groups, each of which had to unscramble some words before doing the puzzle.
  — Tom Chivers, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2020
• The passwords at such sites are scrambled for security, so attackers have to make lots of guesses to unscramble them.
  — Lorrie Cranor, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2017
• Unscrambling the mystery that is hitting a baseball, traveling at up to 100 mph, is Doherty's life's work.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 14 June 2017
• Because your descendants must wait for the second detector to be triggered, there’s no way to unscramble the message before its time.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2016
• Few legal strokes would be as disruptive, yet fully avoidable, as trying to unscramble the Obergefell omelet.
  — Walter Olson, WSJ, 8 July 2018
• Disentangling itself while determining new rules is a process that has been likened to unscrambling an omelet.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
• In time, her abilities helped her rise to become a cryptographer, unscrambling messages from the German navy.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2020
• Have fun simulating the universe and unscrambling eggs!
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Sep. 2016
• Former Sentinel columnist Jim Robison once tried to unscramble the tangle and in the process cited plenty of examples.
  — Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• Another piece of good news is that the passwords Mixcloud does keep on file are encrypted, making them unlikely to be unscrambled by hackers.
  — Tatiana Cirisano, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2019
• On Thursday, French computer-security researcher Adrien Guinet found a way to unscramble the files without paying the $300 ransom.
  — Robert McMillan, WSJ, 19 May 2017
• Armed with their private keys, the Vienna and Beijing teams could unscramble that combined key by essentially subtracting their own, and so learn the other’s secret key.
  — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2018
• To unscramble the mystery and study egg structures, researchers at McGill University used a new focused-ion beam that allowed them to cut extremely thin sections of shell, according to a press release.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018
• That attack used ransomware — where hackers use malware to scramble a victim’s files and then demand money to unscramble them — to infect businesses, banks, hospitals, and schools in more than 150 countries.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 17 July 2019
• In principle, encryption is straightforward: A random number acts as a key letting the sender scramble their message, and the receiver uses this number to unscramble it.
  — Sylvia Morrow, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2017
• Ransomware gangs encrypt crucial data on a victim’s computer network and then demand a ransom, which can run into the millions of dollars, usually payable in Bitcoin, in return for a key to unscramble the data.
  — Adrian Croft, Fortune, 10 May 2021
• Ransomware attacks, in which cyber criminals encrypt an organization’s data and then demand payment to unscramble it, are a growing scourge in the United States.
  — Michelle Chapman, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2021
• Are backup copies of your messages automatically encrypted, with no option for the app company to unscramble them?
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
• Only after receiving payment do the criminals provide software keys that unscramble the data.
  — Fox News, 27 Apr. 2021
• Ransomware attacks, in which cybercriminals encrypt an organization's data and then demand payment to unscramble it, are a growing scourge in the U.S.
  — CBS News, 18 Oct. 2021
• It was hit by what Colonial called a ransomware attack, in which hackers typically lock up computer systems by encrypting data and paralyzing networks, then demand a large ransom to unscramble it.
  — CBS News, 10 May 2021
• It was hit by what Colonial called a ransomware attack, in which hackers typically lock up computer systems by encrypting data, paralyzing networks, and then demand a large ransom to unscramble it.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2021
• The number of ransomware attacks, in which cybercriminals secretly encrypt an organization's data and then demand payment to unscramble it, has surged in recent years.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2021
• The criminals leave instructions on infected computers for how to negotiate ransom payments and, once paid, provide software decryption keys to unscramble the victim's data.
  — Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2021

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024