Example Sentences

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Part of the intrigue of Westworld is decoding things, trying to understand what’s what, and living in the shoes of the show’s hosts as they try to make sense of their own cognition.

From The Verge • Jul. 2, 2018

But neither is decoding the genome or auto-racing, and nobody thinks we should abandon those endeavors.

From Time • Oct. 23, 2017

Using a VPN protects you from snooping in your local coffee shop and by your ISP, but the VPN provider is decoding your datastream and putting it on the internet, so it sees everything.

From The Guardian • May 17, 2012

He says that in working through the levels of a complex game, a person is decoding its “internal design grammar” and that this is a form of critical thinking.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2010

The central figure is Roy Calvert�a brilliant, rich, erratically humored young Orientalist who is decoding an ancient language called Early Soghdian.

From Time Magazine Archive