ENCIPHER Synonyms: 16 Similar and Opposite Words

encipher

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Definition of encipher

as in to cipher

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Recent Examples of encipher To protect sensitive communications traveling along public pathways, the senders enciphered—or encrypted—their words, often using machines that could replace each letter with a new letter. — Liza Mundy, Time, 10 Oct. 2017

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The real challenge from AI will likely emerge in the weeks and months ahead as firms cipher through Judge Mehta’s enforcement of behavioral requirements.

— Tor Constantino, Forbes.com, 5 Sep. 2025
These remnants, signals from an earlier phase of our human condition, have been endlessly ciphered by generations of archaeologists in the Bears Ears region (which is named for twin buttes near its center).

— STEPHEN NASH, New York Times, 25 July 2017

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Understand the ransomware risk Ransomware is malicious software that can lock or encrypt your files and then demand payment to restore access.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Satellites need to process data locally, compress it, filter it, encrypt it and determine what should be transmitted.

— Ben Topor, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

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As design documentation becomes more structured and machine-readable, organizations may eventually encode not only color, typography and spacing but also content structures, interaction principles and tone boundaries.

— Goran Paun, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
To avoid easy detection, the font lets publishers increase the underlying chaos by choosing from three different potential mappings for each word replacement, with the ability to encode their own and/or swap mappings from paragraph to paragraph.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026

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Brennan points to code review as a concrete example of what the new model looks like.

— Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
The tech company spent several months building and internally testing Cloudflare OS, which allows employees to describe workflows in natural language so that an AI agent can code them into applications.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2026

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