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Part of our role as credit investors is deciphering between the two.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

But his most striking accomplishment is deciphering Roman ephemera—wooden and lead tablets that, miraculously, archeologists still unearth from time to time around the province formerly known as Britannia.

From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017

"That's my whole thing is deciphering, decoding the music, and trying to stay away from the triumph of the obvious," he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2015

“The biggest challenge is deciphering my husband’s writing when he decides to put his two cents in,” she joked.

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2014

He examined without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a palimpsest, that portion of chaos which still exists in nature.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence