UNSCRAMBLING Synonyms: 100 Similar and Opposite Words

unscrambling 1 of 2

noun

as in decoding

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unscrambling

2 of 2

verb

present participle of unscramble

as in descrambling

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as in classifying

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Noun

The speech of AIs seems to require remarkably little decoding.

— Agnes Callard, The New York Review of Books, 18 Aug. 2026
The model also supports speculative decoding, a technique that allows multiple tokens to be proposed and then efficiently checked.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of decoding

Verb

Bahdanau was working with artificial neural networks, which had already shown promise in pattern-recognition tasks such as deciphering handwriting and identifying objects in photos.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026
In addition to developing better medicines or perfumes, deciphering the mirror images of molecules can help scientists understand the chemical architecture of life, said chemist Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the journal Science.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of deciphering

Verb

The software generates a score from zero to 100, classifying a patient as low, intermediate, or high risk.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
Below, members of Forbes Technology Council share strategies for classifying large volumes of unstructured data while keeping the manual workload manageable.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of classifying

Noun

The Middle-Market Reality KPMG’s 2026 Global M&A Outlook, based on a survey of 700 dealmakers, found that operational disentanglement is the top execution risk cited by respondents, ahead of both valuation complexity and IT separation.

— Miki Kapoor, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Some ideas are about forging connections, like Luke’s insight about disentanglement.

— Dan Rockmore, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025

Definition of disentanglement

Verb

Seeing a few chapters out of context is not going to deliver the same thrill as cracking open the new book and reading as the author intended.

— Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 17 Oct. 2026
The researchers developed their fiber-optic system to detect acoustic emissions, or small vibrations produced when materials undergo changes such as cracking.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of cracking

Noun

Catch up on breaking news, exclusive interviews, political analysis, original reporting, and standout moments — all in one place, every week.

— Washington Examiner, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2026
In an analysis of data from 130 studies involving more than 275,000 people around the globe, most character strengths were associated with greater mental health.

— Joan M. Cook, Time, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of analysis

Verb

The deadline has prompted security engineers to focus preparations to ward off harvest-now-decrypt-later (HNDL, and also store now, decrypt later) threats, in which adversaries squirrel away encrypted data flowing over the Internet with the plan of decrypting it on Q-Day—the date a CRQC arrives.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2026
WhatsApp and Signal are best known for using end-to-end encryption, which can prevent even the messaging services themselves from decrypting user chats.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 9 Mar. 2026

Definition of decrypting

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