decipher
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It means that some of parts of the document release are hard to decipher, with key passages within messages, or entire exchanges, redacted.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
Many blockchain analytics firms help law enforcement decipher “anonymous” transactions and hunt down illicit activity.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Their goal was not to decipher the symbols, which remain undecoded, but to measure their structural properties.
From Science Daily • Feb. 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
Resa reached for the paper again, and once more it took him a painfully long time to decipher her clear, neat writing.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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