encode
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Telegraphy was nearly instantaneous, but it required skilled operators at each end of the line to encode and decode the message, effectively slowing transmission.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
Since 2019, Microsoft's Silica project has been trying to encode data on glass plates, in a throwback to the early days of photography, when negatives were also stored on glass.
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026
Now, the Surge doesn’t think it would be that much effort to encode those promises into law, to be extra careful.
From Slate • Jan. 17, 2026
The genre’s marginal roots complicate blanket condemnations, since the same raunchy lyrics often encode critiques of class exclusion.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025
A gene, in short, possessed not just information to encode a protein, but also information about when and where to make that protein.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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