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verb

decrypt

convert code into ordinary language

In a sentence

Six example sentences with decrypt, each labelled with its topic.

  • Only the phone itself can decrypt the messages, so the company hands investigators a file of unreadable characters.

    Technology

  • Analysts at the station needed six months to decrypt the intercepted signals into readable German sentences.

    History

  • The final puzzle asks you to decrypt a wall of symbols into plain words using a key hidden in chapter two.

    Gaming

  • The court ordered the company to decrypt the messages, and it replied that it held no key that could.

    Law

  • The spy film hinges on a race to decrypt a single message before the courier reaches the border.

    Movies

  • The novel's hero must decrypt his grandfather's coded diary, one substitution cipher per chapter.

    Literature

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