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

What if abnormal Norman were to be questioned by the shrink who has decoded his warped family life?

From Time Magazine Archive