decipher
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No, multiple academics have attempted to decipher the meaning behind the mightily adorable meow of the domestic house cat.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 9, 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 like “gainsay,” “concomitant” and “fantods.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 17, 2026
Dr Helen Paul, an economic historian at the University of Southampton, was one of the experts brought in to decipher 18th Century ledgers.
From BBC β Jun. 18, 2026
"Gaia is delivering on its promise: by combining its data with ground-based spectroscopy and galaxy simulations, it allows us to decipher the formation history of our Galaxy."
From Science Daily β Apr. 29, 2026
Overhead signs with cryptic symbols and writing come and go before I can decipher them.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
Ms. Allen traces pen names, decodes handwriting and deciphers marginalia in Richmond’s correspondence and books.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 12, 2026
The new study deciphers the whole reaction network for the first time, determines the dominant molecular pathway and unveils the critical role of electrocatalysis in modifying the reaction's kinetics.
From Science Daily β Feb. 6, 2024
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 β 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 β Nov. 22, 2023
Which is the natural man, And which the spirit? who deciphers them?
From The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William George Clark
For decades, they remained largely untouched, but researchers have now deciphered them, uncovering texts that range from magical rituals to royal records and everyday administrative notes.
From Science Daily β May 5, 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 β Apr. 25, 2026
Then a law-enforcement officer wrote a new computer program that finally deciphered the information.
From The Wall Street Journal β Dec. 15, 2025
I often thought it was because he didn’t exactly want them deciphered, or that he wanted to maintain a level of constant ambiguity.
From Slate β Nov. 17, 2025
To begin with, they deciphered Calakmul’s proper name: Kaan, the Kingdom of the Snake.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
But there is no standardized public key for deciphering them; codes vary among plants and products, and the absence of an obvious “TF” is no guarantee Taylor Farms wasn’t involved.
From Salon β Aug. 14, 2026
But the predicament we face in deciphering the Venetian statistics is hardly unique.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 12, 2026
The bots also weren’t great at deciphering things like maps.
From MarketWatch β May 13, 2026
"We are deciphering the 'identity card' of tumors, by identifying, one by one, the key variables that determine the evolution of the disease," explains Pittet.
From Science Daily β Feb. 10, 2026
That leaves us with the theory that they were built for some mysterious cultural purpose that archaeologists have a hard time deciphering.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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