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cipher

[sahy-fer] / ˈsaɪ fər /




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Each letter in a standard Caesar cipher is replaced by the one three spots down the alphabet so an ‘A’ becomes a ‘D.”

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

Finally, Marilyn is not presented as a cipher to be solved or quarry to be caged.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

The Cybertruck has become a cipher for this injustice.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025

“By the end of the war, I was more or less known as a military cipher expert,” she wrote, “but I was better known as the wife of my husband.”

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




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