cipher

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

Gabriel could have come across as a mere cipher in this environment, a faceless spook navigating smoke and mirrors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

The Cybertruck has become a cipher for this injustice.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025

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

The Friedmans also housed some of their own papers in the library, as well as various cipher machines and coding devices.

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