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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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Becky Kennedy, Contributor, CNBC, 7 Mar. 2025
Davis spent her days analyzing code for state and local municipalities, identifying risks or abnormalities across the nation's aging critical infrastructure.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2025
Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2025
Google says these more thorough responses, powered by its newer Gemini 2.0 model, should be better equipped to answer more complex, multifaceted questions as well as queries related to coding and advanced math.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Pre-register now and use coupon code EARLYBIRD for an introductory discount of 30% off $97 (+taxes and fees) through April 1, 2025.
—Becky Kennedy, Contributor, CNBC, 7 Mar. 2025
Davis spent her days analyzing code for state and local municipalities, identifying risks or abnormalities across the nation's aging critical infrastructure.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2025
Verb
Excepting Britt Lower’s Helena, who is coded as a child, the offspring of Jame Eagan, the outies have exhausted their arcs.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2025
Google says these more thorough responses, powered by its newer Gemini 2.0 model, should be better equipped to answer more complex, multifaceted questions as well as queries related to coding and advanced math.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for code
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But the deal would ultimately involve the purchase of bricks and mortar, or their construction: a simple and predictable future course of actions or change in ownership of property, protected and cosseted by lawyers and courts – by the rule of law.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
8 Mar. 2025
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The office did not answer questions about whether any correspondence had been deleted, or how that would comply with public records laws and the city’s records retention policy.—
Julia Wick,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2025
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The person literally has no specific duties or obligations outlined in the state constitution other than remaining alive.—
Scott Maxwell,
Orlando Sentinel,
7 Mar. 2025
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Florida’s ballot initiative process, a right guaranteed in the constitution, has long been used by groups to pass measures that have been otherwise stymied by state lawmakers.—
Romy Ellenbogen,
Miami Herald,
7 Mar. 2025
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The equation no longer corresponds to a Turing machine that computes perfect squares—and, more generally, the Diophantine equations can no longer encode the halting problem.—
Joseph Howlett,
WIRED,
9 Mar. 2025
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This new round of data is for a vaccine that delivers strands of mRNA — the same material used in the COVID vaccines — encoding the recipes for a long list of proteins specific to a patient’s tumor.—
Lisa Jarvis,
Twin Cities,
9 Mar. 2025
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Implement encrypted, privacy-preserving designs that protect biometric data and maintain regulatory compliance.—
Michael Engle,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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Ransomware Protection Webroot's journal and rollback system should even roll back the effects of encrypting ransomware.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Code.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.
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