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
For the public’s purposes, she was a cipher onto which we were urged to project our romantic fantasies.
From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026
“Election Day” isn’t a space, say, with complex cipher codes to untangle.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025
In a substitution cipher, each letter of the message you want to send is swapped out for a different letter.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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