encrypt
verb (used with object)
to convert (a message or the like) into cipher or code.
encrypted
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past participleof encrypt.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof encrypt.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
encryptverb (used with object)to convert (a message or the like) into cipher or code. -
a word derived from
encrypt.
encryptverb (used with object)to convert (a message or the like) into cipher or code.
Example Sentences
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A Saudi national who worked as an engineer at OpenAI has been arrested and charged with hiding an encrypted recording device at a company office in San Francisco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
And he adds that all recordings captured by the glasses are encrypted, and the firm itself cannot see them - though this also means HTC cannot flag harmful content.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Many looted items appear on Facebook and channels for the encrypted messaging app Telegram, which are based outside the country, Junaid said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The immediate risk is a “harvest now, decrypt later” approach by bad actors, who are downloading large sets of encrypted data they can’t crack now—but could unlock once quantum computing algorithms are good enough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Agents managed to intercept Cornwallis’s encrypted reports to Clinton during the siege of Yorktown, and James Lovell cracked the code that Cornwallis used.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
