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unscramble

[uhn-skram-buhl] / ʌnˈskræm bəl /








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The number hidden in the envelope was the key that would finally unscramble his experimental data and reveal what his team had measured.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

The researchers first worked to unscramble the signals from Mr. Oskam’s brain.

From NewsForKids.net ● May 30, 2023

The ambition, CIA officials say, is for images to be shared with the public on social media to see if they can unscramble them.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2022

“I just need to unscramble the last jumble.”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

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

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

Consider phone networks: your calls share space with others through a technique called multiplexing - data gets time stamped, scrambled up, and unscrambled at the other end.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2019

One such application is to coding theory, which allows government officials, bankers, and others to pass classified sensitive information without fear that it will be unscrambled.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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

One group completed a task that included unscrambling words in sentences containing words such as “analyze” and “rational,” which primed them to think more analytically.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 2020

But coded messages are harder to discern, particularly by policy teams that have not invested in unscrambling them.

From The Verge ● Aug. 20, 2020

It said the establishment of two-way communication was very difficult and read from a script about social history, to give us practice in unscrambling it.

From The Machine That Saved The World by Murray Leinster




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