decipherer
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decipherers
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This is a monumental work by American conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth that pays homage to the town’s native son and hieroglyphics decipherer, Jean-François Champollion.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
He makes better decisions at the line of scrimmage, where he’s still the league’s best decipherer of defenses.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 6, 2016
A dead world has been called again to life by the spade of the excavator and the patient labour of the decipherer.
From Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Clagget was, however, succeeded in the see of St. David's by Dr. Edward Willes, Dean of Lincoln and decipherer to the King; and, in the following year, translated to the bishopric of Bath and Wells.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham
The two parties being confronted before him, each produced a book of accounts, written in a language and character that would have puzzled any but a High-Dutch commentator or a learned decipherer of Egyptian obelisks.
From Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I by Thomas L. Masson
But in a distracted, memory-stunted age, they require new interpreters, curators from different backgrounds and perhaps artists, as decipherers, analysts, able to link the present to the past.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2020
Leave it for Mr Wriothesley, the prince of decipherers.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2020
Not to mention enough cryptic symbols, pop-culture references and recurring motifs to keep the online decipherers busy.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 9, 2019
I do not give either the decipherers or their reasons: I have not room for this; nor would I, if I could, bias my reader for one rather than another.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
At all events, there were certain animate objects who were delighted to see us, or we must have been very bad decipherers of the human countenance.
From Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars by T. Robertson
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