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Following France's quarter-final exit on home soil at the last Rugby World Cup, it emerged that South Africa's coaches had decoded one of their tactical calls, external before a 29-28 win.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Yet no one can say they’ve decisively decoded what the show is trying to tell us.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025

"I decoded Morse code and passed it to the next person," she said.

From BBC • May 3, 2025

When a sporting event is being live streamed, the captured video is released in smaller segments of a few seconds in length that are then transmitted to streaming subscribers and decoded by the users’ devices.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2024

Each parent contributed a set of instructions, which were decoded to create a child.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee