had deciphered
- past perfect of decipher.
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For example, in some tasks, teams might receive a payout based on the number of puzzles they solved together; participants could lie and inflate the quantity they had deciphered for a greater monetary reward.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 29, 2022
By 2005, Taubenberger, Ann H. Reid and other colleagues had deciphered the complete genome of the 1918 virus and published the results in the scientific journal Nature, showing that the pathogen originated in birds.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2022
Newman just knew them — or rather, he had deciphered them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2016
In the portion of the coded letter that agents in New York had deciphered, they had found an email address the sender wanted to use for further communication.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2016
Finally, he nodded gravely to indicate he had deciphered my blood background.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
