cipher
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Frostproof became a cipher for just how untouchable the industry had become.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
To make the journey work without the audiences seeing each other, Broucke used a mathematical application called a Caesar cipher, created by the Roman general to send encrypted messages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Some refer to her as the “Manchurian candidate,” said John Hart, a communication professor at Hawaii Pacific University, referring to the malleable cipher in the famous political thriller.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
That conversation comes up in “Twin Peaks: The Return” as Lynch flat-out confirms Laura Palmer to be a cipher for unyielding good, intended to restore universal balance after humankind developed a new capacity for evil.
From Salon • Jan. 25, 2025
Barbara put this trick to good use at summer camp, when she wrote her letters in cipher so that the camp director couldn’t read them.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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