Example Sentences

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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

The decipherer of the coat-of-arms had ventured up the lower step, and, shrinking back immediately, pale and tremulous, affirmed that the torch was held by the very image of old Cæsar.

From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

I grant," said I, "that these hieroglyphics might well puzzle a more practised decipherer than myself.

From Across the Zodiac by Greg, Percy

Obviously this class of ciphers presents greater difficulties to the skill of the decipherer.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various