Example Sentences

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Infecting smartphones or other gadgets being used for WhatsApp messages meant the content of messages encrypted during transmission could be accessed after they were unscrambled.

From Barron's • Oct. 18, 2025

We may, for instance, receive a text that tells us what the spy is wearing, but it will need to be unscrambled.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2024

Only the recipient can see the unscrambled message.

From Fox News • Jan. 11, 2021

Consider phone networks: your calls share space with others through a technique called multiplexing - data gets time stamped, scrambled up, and unscrambled at the other end.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2019

One such application is to coding theory, which allows government officials, bankers, and others to pass classified sensitive information without fear that it will be unscrambled.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos