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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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Recent Examples of code
Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2025
The bar found a Dutch butcher who can slice the steak the right way, and developed its own Whiz when British food codes wouldn’t let the real(?) stuff in.
—Ali Watkins, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
Ina Fried, Axios, 3 Feb. 2025
Each group is coded by color to indicate difficulty: yellow for the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple for more challenging sets.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
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Noun
That would clarify a bit of confusion in the city code, Bonta said, to make sure contractors use concrete for driveways where a sidewalk bisects the driveway.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2025
The bar found a Dutch butcher who can slice the steak the right way, and developed its own Whiz when British food codes wouldn’t let the real(?) stuff in.
—Ali Watkins, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
Verb
In an interview with Axios, Gates made the case that math and coding skills help people understand how AI works.
—Ina Fried, Axios, 3 Feb. 2025
Each group is coded by color to indicate difficulty: yellow for the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple for more challenging sets.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
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What To Know TikTok's latest move is a response to the app's removal from the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store following a law enacted on January 19, which mandated that ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent company, divest its U.S. operations or face a ban.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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The lawsuit claims that L.A. Unified is denying arts instruction to students that is guaranteed by state law.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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There has been a land redistribution and restitution provision in the country’s constitution since South Africa emerged from its apartheid era and held its first democratic elections in 1994.—
Alejandra Jaramillo,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2025
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In 2005, the new Iraqi constitution granted the Kurdish territory in Northern Iraq federal status, marking a historic moment in Kurdish self-determination.—
Sefa Secen & Serhun Al / Made by History,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
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Chief Kingdom Birds love is encoded in Philly's DNA, and this team is easy to get behind.—
Ross Terrell,
Axios,
4 Feb. 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,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Feb. 2025
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Once the original data was encrypted, the men and others involved in the scheme would allegedly extort the victims for ransom payments in exchange for keys that would allow the victims to access the data again.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2025
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For example: Ransomware: A wealth management firm lost access to client records after hackers encrypted their systems.—
Garrett Vanderpool,
Kansas City Star,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Code.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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