cipher
Example Sentences
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It was a treat to watch the trio of unimpeachable rappers go bar for bar in a three-way mic swap, like a tight-knit cipher of rap royalty.
From Seattle Times
Katie Hafner: The messages sent around by the South American spies were using pretty classic methods of encryption, like book ciphers.
From Scientific American
He’s a cipher with a sympathetic yet disturbingly opaque center.
From Los Angeles Times
The work required a strong understanding of math since many ciphers replace letters with numbers and then hide the original message with equations.
And there was this woman at its center who was always a bit of a cipher, hard to pin down.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
