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decipher

[dih-sahy-fer] / dɪˈsaɪ fər /


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Kandasamy, who runs Mahjong Palace, said there’s a “neuro connective” element to mahjong, and if you’re “taking three seconds to decipher this new Hello Kitty-holding-something on the tile,” that’s precious time lost.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Wall Street is trying to decipher who the software winners and losers will be as artificial intelligence capabilities ramp up.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

Carmel-by-the-Sea has long had its own dispatch center, with workers trained to decipher people’s descriptions of where they live, former Police Chief Paul Tomasi told The Times in 2024.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

That said, economists and central bankers have an ongoing intellectual debate to decipher whether AI is indeed the reason for the rise in productivity.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026

The opposite side of the document once had verbiage, but the image has faded with age and is impossible to decipher, despite numerous attempts by modern science.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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