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decipher

[dih-sahy-fer] / dɪˈsaɪ fər /


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“LLM responses do not cite their sources, and therefore we can’t decipher the origins of the information presented to us.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Their goal was not to decipher the symbols, which remain undecoded, but to measure their structural properties.

From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 2026

"It's hard to decipher what's real and what's not, what's true and what's not true -- people arguing over the exact same video and saying 'this happened, no, that happened.'"

From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026

Carmel-by-the-Sea has long had its own dispatch center, with workers trained to decipher people’s descriptions of where they live, former Police Chief Paul Tomasi told The Times in 2024.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

After she had learned to decipher that first simple sentence, it didn’t take Sefia long to realize that she would never be able to master the words unless she could reproduce them.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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