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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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Other functions include compressing PDF files to reduce file size, encrypting documents with password protection, and adding or removing watermarks.—
StackCommerce Team (Sponsored),
PCMAG,
21 Mar. 2025
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The new script is, wait for it, encrypted using what is known as a shifting substitution cipher rather than being in plain text.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
19 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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One person online compared being severed to code switching at work; another compared it to switching between a public work social media account and a private one.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
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Twist is now working on a chip that can code three orders of magnitude more data, according to Emily Leproust, the company’s C.E.O. and co-founder.—
Matthew Hutson,
The New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Encipher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encipher. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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