Example Sentences

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They may be reflexes designed to protect us from things our brain has encoded as threats.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2022

“That’s simply because their brain has encoded it in this fragmented way,” says David Lisak, a clinical psychologist and forensic consultant who trains civilian and military law enforcement to understand victim and offender behavior.

From Slate • Jun. 19, 2013

George Church, a DNA researcher at Harvard, has encoded one of his own books in DNA by translating the zero/one digital code into DNA code.

From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2013

Like the tetragrammatic name of God, the moniker Jwoww has encoded in it everything you need to understand the world we live in today.

From Time • Feb. 18, 2010