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“I couldn’t quite hear what was happening. I couldn’t quite decipher what I was seeing. I was like, is this part of it or is this something else?” she recalled.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

No, multiple academics have attempted to decipher the meaning behind the mightily adorable meow of the domestic house cat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

"More globally, this work is a step forward in the combined use of laboratory experiments and AI to decipher the information that is embedded in the sequence of the DNA bases in humans," said Kadonaga.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

When the second-largest U.S. bank discloses its quarterly financial results, analysts have to decipher the lexicon of CEO Brian Moynihan, riddled with obscure, archaic words fit for novelists or judges of bygone centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

I hope it doesn’t take us another five years to decipher it.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

But the generation that deciphers these characters will be an intelligent generation, it will understand and say, ‘Not all were asleep in the night of our ancestors!’

From The Social Cancer by Charles E. Derbyshire

After cracking the first, he was given a second which he also deciphered.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

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

Signal's end-to-end encryption means that any sent message travels in a scrambled form and can only be deciphered by the end user.

From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026

Then a law-enforcement officer wrote a new computer program that finally deciphered the information.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

Occasionally, when talking to Roy’s mother, Mr. Eberhardt would refer to his working for the “D.O.J.,” which Roy had deciphered as the United States Department of Justice.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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

Turing played a crucial role in the Allies' victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two by helping to crack codes and deciphering the infamous Enigma machine at Bletchley Park.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Mr. Ely provides a few sentences of transcribed testimony before analyzing the case’s factual details and deciphering any unusual language from the period.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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

I knew the secret to deciphering the riddle must involve the wrapper in some way, but I still couldn’t sort out how.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline