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The competition offered a $700,000 Grand Prize to the first person who could decipher four passages containing at least 140 characters each from two Herculaneum scrolls imaged with X-ray CT.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

You don’t need to decide what to watch or decipher subtext and creative interpretation.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

Those cases were of a single charge, were easier to decipher and involved significantly less evidence.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

It’s looking like a year where the winners will be easy to decipher, according to awards prognosticators, which includes The Times’ award columnist Glenn Whipp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

There were words on the paper, but the Monroes were unable to decipher them because they were in a totally unfamiliar language.

From "Bunnicula" by Deborah Howe and James Howe

Cathy, meanwhile, deciphers the key to life through Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland,” a story about a girl like her who survives an upside-down world.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Ms. Allen traces pen names, decodes handwriting and deciphers marginalia in Richmond’s correspondence and books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The brain deciphers the signals and takes action in milliseconds - a process completed every second or so for 12 or more hours a day.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

Both fall into the field of “generative AI,” or AI that ingests vast quantities of data and can then output nominally original media based on patterns it deciphers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

At about this time a gentile captain came from a rancheria designated Guche or Getche, depending upon how one deciphers the handwriting of the manuscript.

From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne F. Cook

Only a small number of the charred scrolls from Herculaneum's Villa of the Papyri have so far been virtually opened and deciphered.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

But the point for Kagan in bringing up this legislative history was merely to provide “yet more proof” of statutory meaning already deciphered through “straight-up statutory construction.”

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026

If comprehensively deciphered, the relationships between the species populating the genealogical tree of life, Mr. Telford argues, offer the possibility of understanding the evolutionary history of every component of natural biology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

The S-shaped copper sculpture has baffled cryptography enthusiasts since its 1990 installation on the grounds of the CIA headquarters in Virginia, with three of its four messages deciphered so far.

From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025

His tone could not be deciphered; at least Isidore could not crack it.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Come early to mingle with the cast, in character, of course, who may or may not need your help in deciphering some puzzles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

But the predicament we face in deciphering the Venetian statistics is hardly unique.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The bots also weren’t great at deciphering things like maps.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

She exits her state without deciphering Paula’s words, yet feels an innate and moving satisfaction anyway, as if she could glean the meaning of what her former patient said without understanding every word.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026

A worksheet was due that day deciphering the meaning of some lines from Macbeth, and Don was handed a copy of the homework by someone else so he could copy down the answers.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger