unscramble
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He went 0-for-19 in the Dodgers’ last homestand, when even a game off did nothing to unscramble his mind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
She warned that allowing the merger to proceed now would make it "extraordinarily difficult to unscramble the egg" if the court decided later to block it all together.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The researchers first worked to unscramble the signals from Mr. Oskam’s brain.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 30, 2023
Alice keeps those factors as her private key, which enables her to quickly unscramble Bob’s message.
From Science Magazine ● May 5, 2022
My eyes could barely unscramble what they saw.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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Now, she does exercises with Sunny in which she unscrambles sentences and puts the words in the right order.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
“I spit it out and she unscrambles it. She does a great job.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
At the bottom of this page are 36 of the letter sets from the long-out-of-print “Big Book of ScrabbleGrams”; each unscrambles into a real word, but of course we don’t care about that.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2022
End-to-end encryption is technology that scrambles messages on your phone and unscrambles them only on the recipients’ phones, which means anyone who intercepts the messages in between can’t read them.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2021
"Wouldn't It Be Nice/You Still Believe in Me" , the line runs, before our brain unscrambles the rest of the offering, "God Only Knows", "Sloop John B" and the others.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 16, 2010
Revelling in the power of his army, he gave orders by radio, the messages deliberately left unscrambled so they would be picked up and broadcast worldwide.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Infecting smartphones or other gadgets being used for WhatsApp messages meant the content of messages encrypted during transmission could be accessed after they were unscrambled.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
We may, for instance, receive a text that tells us what the spy is wearing, but it will need to be unscrambled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
Only the recipient can see the unscrambled message.
From Fox News ● Jan. 11, 2021
I was unable to move until my brain had somewhat unscrambled itself.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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With the imminent publication of his final book titled "Magpie Murders," eagle-eyed readers would realize that unscrambling the first letters for each novel in the detective series would spell out "AN ANAGRAM."
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022
Then, once one knows the colors, it’s simply a matter of unscrambling one’s guesses until they’re in the right order.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2022
But coded messages are harder to discern, particularly by policy teams that have not invested in unscrambling them.
From The Verge ● Aug. 20, 2020
One can see it in action over breakfast: think of the implausibility of unscrambling an egg and returning it to a pristinely pieced-back-together shell.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 19, 2020
On the first of March of the year 1815, when the representatives of the allies were ready to begin the work of unscrambling the map of Europe, Napoleon suddenly landed near Cannes.
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon