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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

Baba was reciting a long poem he had deciphered from ancient stone inscriptions.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan