decode
verb (used with object)
to translate (data or a message) from a code into the original language or form.
has decoded
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present perfectof decode (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Ms. Dellinger has decoded nearly 100 such seen-but-not-heard moments.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
By the time the brain has decoded and combined it all—Happy Birthday!—it’s a wonder we even recognize the tune.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
Once more a fiscal conservative than a social one, she has decoded Arizona's political landscape and is riding the immigration issue, even though it came to her almost by accident.
From Time ● Aug. 24, 2010
The dog genome has been decoded twice: scientists at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., have sequenced the boxer’s genome, and Craig Venter, a pioneer of DNA sequencing, has decoded his poodle’s genome.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2010
In the past four months his international consortium of public- and foundation-funded laboratories, with its robotic machinery knocking off 12,000 units every minute, has decoded another billion letters.
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