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as in to crack
to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language
we deciphered the hidden message to find out when we were supposed to meet
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as in to understand
to have a clear idea of
a convoluted thriller, the plot of which I was never able to actually decipher
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Recent Examples of decipher
Those looking to decipher the film’s rather ambiguous ending would do well to remember those words.
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Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2025
Similarly, the discovery of DNA’s double-helix structure is often attributed to James Watson and Francis Crick, but their breakthrough was built on the foundational work of many others, including Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray diffraction images were critical to deciphering DNA’s structure.
—Mark Nevins, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
This is more likely to occur in noisy environments, where an AI system may end up adding new or irrelevant words in an attempt to decipher background noise such as a passing truck or a crying infant.
—Anna Choi, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2025
The co-stars playfully deciphered dating red flags and green flags with a Snow White twist.
—Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 21 Mar. 2025
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House sparrows prefer to be near humans, so place a birdhouse away from the house and avoid feeding smaller seeds like millet, cracked corn, and milo, which sparrows love.—
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More on the Trump administration A united conservative front on Trump’s immigration purge is beginning to crack over the administration’s aggressive, sometimes slapdash tactics.—
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In Congress, Trump’s Tariff Pullback Sparks Relief, Frustration, and Suspicion At the White House, press secretary Karoline Leavitt scolded reporters for not understanding the president’s plans.—
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At some point 3 to 4 billion years ago, Mars lost its atmosphere for reasons not yet fully understood, and with it, the temperate conditions that allowed liquid water to exist on its surface.—
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Golden had fallen in love with Clayton’s offensive efficiency numbers at Iona and believed his scoring ability would translate.—
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Communication Breakdown Middle managers traditionally filter, translate, and contextualize information flowing up and down the organizational hierarchy.—
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Often referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease after the baseball player who was diagnosed with it, the exact cause of the disease is still not known, although a small group of cases are inherited.—
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Snow is best known for being part of the ensemble cast in Universal’s Pitch Perfect and its two sequels.—
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The only Heat players ruled out Wednesday are Nikola Jovic (broken right hand), Kevin Love (personal reasons) and Dru Smith (left Achilles surgery).—
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But in order to comprehend that fact, people like Rowling would have to actually listen to ace people, and that’s more intellectually curious than she’s been since at least the 1990s.—
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In Alex's case, this involved initiating honest conversations with Emily to comprehend the underlying factors contributing to her distress.—
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That system, which had a delay of about eight seconds to decode her brain patterns, would speak full sentences at once.—
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If the James Webb Space Telescope's expertise is decoding the intricacies of an ancient star, SPHEREx's expertise is mapping out all the stuff around the star.—
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For years, the school board declined the proposal to recognize Eid as a day off.—
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Police are still searching for the men, and released images of them on Thursday in the hope someone may recognize them.—
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“Decipher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decipher. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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