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
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
While criticism, so-called, has been busy in demolishing the records of the Pentateuch, archaeology, by the spade of the excavator and the patient skill of the decipherer, has been equally busy in restoring their credit.
From Patriarchal Palestine by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Philips the decipherer; committed to Tower for correspondence with Mr. Owen cclviii.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard
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 inclined to the doctrine of Poe, that no cipher can be devised which cannot be detected by an experienced hand; my friends indicated simple methods of defeating the processes on which decipherers rely.
From Across the Zodiac by Percy Greg
Intelligent, however, as Browning was, it implied a curious lack of intelligence to suppose that a poem of many thousand lines written I in shorthand would speedily find decipherers.
From Robert Browning by Edward Dowden
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