cipher

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

“Election Day” isn’t a space, say, with complex cipher codes to untangle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025

Since the nascent days of filmmaking, “Nosferatu” has been a sociological cipher.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024

She takes the chalk from my hand and writes the solution to my cipher on the board:

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

The love he once had for baseball he now felt for a strange and mysterious place that was as old as history itself yet as secretive as the classical ciphers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

They were challenged to embed hidden codes, and ciphers into their designs.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

The rest of them in the film are ciphers whose motives, dreams, suffering and rage remain unknown to us.

From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2024

But I am calling for a little more emotional clarity from the adults who condemn these students for being imperfect ciphers of morality.

From Slate ● May 2, 2024

They took books, manuals, and index cards, many of them dealing with old ciphers from World War I and the 1920s.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

You can let a computer create various passwords and convert them into ciphered values using known hash functions.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 13, 2023

Also known as Mary Stuart, the then deposed queen of Scotland, who was a contender for the English throne, wrote these 57 ciphered letters between 1578 and 1584.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 8, 2023

The ciphered letters were believed to be Italian.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 8, 2023

But they were stumped by the even more complex ciphered messages being transmitted among Hitler and the generals Erwin Rommel, Wilhelm Keitel, Gerd von Rundstedt and Alfred Jodl.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2014

I wonder how long you've been a roarin' At this infernal rate: I wonder if all you've been a pourin' Could be ciphered on a slate.

From The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts by George W. Holley

He used intricate script to write in a ciphering book, which was kept by students of the day to progress through the entirety of their mathematics education.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 2021

He expressed his ciphering talent in an addendum to a letter his wife wrote on July 14, 1897.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2021

This reminds us of when some big, musty steamer trunk of a bill gets plopped down in Congress and the poor folks at the Congressional Budget Office get to ciphering.

From Fox News ● May 5, 2020

“You can tell that when me and Rondo are ciphering through our Rolodex of mental basketball capacity that those guys are like, ‘OK, what are you all talking about?’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2018

“What’s them, fancy sorts of ciphering like algeeber?”

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis