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Six example sentences with decode, each labelled with its topic.
Bletchley Park analysts worked through the night to decode intercepted German signals before the convoy reached open water.
History
Players who decode the scrawled runes on the tomb wall unlock a hidden corridor beneath the flooded temple.
Gaming
Radiologists learn to decode faint shadows on a chest film into a clear picture of what ails the patient.
Medicine
The browser must decode the compressed stream before a single frame of video can appear on the screen.
Technology
Researchers decode the bird's song by slowing the recording tenfold until each note separates into distinct syllables.
Science
Scholars finally decoded the shorthand in the diarist's notebooks, revealing three centuries of perfectly ordinary gossip.
Literature
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