cipher

Example Sentences

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They talked about how to draw out the character; in the book, the adults are mostly ciphers seen through Margaret’s eyes.

From New York Times

Especially those of us who can’t take any more Dead Girl TV in which the deceased is a beautiful cipher whose function it is to spur disillusioned sleuths into cliched epiphanies about other bad men.

From Washington Post

In the presence of her pop goddess Ni'Jah whether on a TV screen or in person, she's a slack-jawed, mesmerized cipher ready to be absorbed whole or devour anything in her way.

From Salon

Still, in the early going, she is mostly a bemused cipher.

From New York Times

But CM soon discovers that X — always a cipher, and widely revered for her intensity — had been far crueler and more dangerous than she had realized.

From New York Times