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unscramble

[uhn-skram-buhl] / ʌnˈskræm bəl /








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And at this point, it may not be possible as a practical matter to unscramble the eggs.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2024

The researchers first worked to unscramble the signals from Mr. Oskam’s brain.

From NewsForKids.net May 30, 2023

Only another briefcase with the same key on its paper tape could unscramble the message and convert the digits into a machine-like voice at the other end.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2022

However, a quantum computer would be able to factor the huge number much faster than an ordinary computer, enabling Eve to unscramble the message in a jiffy, too.

From Science Magazine May 5, 2022

My eyes could barely unscramble what they saw.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Now, she does exercises with Sunny in which she unscrambles sentences and puts the words in the right order.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 18, 2026

“I spit it out and she unscrambles it. She does a great job.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 15, 2022

At the bottom of this page are 36 of the letter sets from the long-out-of-print “Big Book of ScrabbleGrams”; each unscrambles into a real word, but of course we don’t care about that.

From Washington Post Mar. 31, 2022

End-to-end encryption is technology that scrambles messages on your phone and unscrambles them only on the recipients’ phones, which means anyone who intercepts the messages in between can’t read them.

From Scientific American Aug. 9, 2021

"Wouldn't It Be Nice/You Still Believe in Me" , the line runs, before our brain unscrambles the rest of the offering, "God Only Knows", "Sloop John B" and the others.

From The Guardian Oct. 16, 2010

Infecting smartphones or other gadgets being used for WhatsApp messages meant the content of messages encrypted during transmission could be accessed after they were unscrambled.

From Barron's Oct. 18, 2025

We may, for instance, receive a text that tells us what the spy is wearing, but it will need to be unscrambled.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2024

Only the recipient can see the unscrambled message.

From Fox News Jan. 11, 2021

Four minutes later, with one more twist, it unscrambled the last few tiles, and a cheer went up from a long line of researchers watching nearby.

From New York Times Oct. 15, 2019

When Johnny saw Sissy, his poor mixed-up brain unscrambled for a minute and he grabbed her arm.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

With the imminent publication of his final book titled "Magpie Murders," eagle-eyed readers would realize that unscrambling the first letters for each novel in the detective series would spell out "AN ANAGRAM."

From Salon Nov. 21, 2022

Then, once one knows the colors, it’s simply a matter of unscrambling one’s guesses until they’re in the right order.

From Slate Feb. 5, 2022

But coded messages are harder to discern, particularly by policy teams that have not invested in unscrambling them.

From The Verge Aug. 20, 2020

One can see it in action over breakfast: think of the implausibility of unscrambling an egg and returning it to a pristinely pieced-back-together shell.

From Scientific American Aug. 19, 2020

On the first of March of the year 1815, when the representatives of the allies were ready to begin the work of unscrambling the map of Europe, Napoleon suddenly landed near Cannes.

From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon




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