encrypt

verb

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as in to encode

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Recent Examples of encrypt To encrypt messages with RSA, someone just needs to know one of these numbers, which, like RSA-260, have only two prime factors; decryption requires knowing both specific primes. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2026 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 Only Fortitude could be accessed by thieves, solely due to the production company’s failure to encrypt the drive, the spokesperson alleged. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for encrypt
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  1. encode
  2. cipher
  3. code
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  • The four chemical units that make up strands of DNA also encode information that can serve as the basis of algorithmic calculations.
    — Mike McRae September 22, New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Because of the high likelihood of corruption, our devices encode messages with enough redundancy that they can be pieced together by the receiving machine despite the errors incurred in transit.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of encode
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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
Definition of cipher
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  • For engineering leaders, the practical question is no longer just how quickly developers code.
    — Luis Aburto, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The new Siri cannot code like OpenAI’s Codex or write as elegantly as Anthropic’s Claude.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
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“Encrypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encrypt. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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