encrypt

verb

Definition of encryptnext
as in to encode

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Recent Examples of encrypt Duo and Google Authenticator are both easy to use, free, and offer backup tools that store and encrypt your credentials. — Brian Sloan, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2026 Berkeley’s decision to fully encrypt has been influenced by multiple factors. — Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025 Even the consumer-level codes that encrypt your online banking are so hard to break that every computer on the planet working together would need longer than the age of the universe to brute-force them apart. — David M. Ewalt, Scientific American, 19 May 2026 NextGen also allows broadcasters to encrypt channels with DRM content controls; NextGen-compatible sets don’t have issues with that, but some add-on tuners do. — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for encrypt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for encrypt
  1. encode
  2. cipher
  3. code
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  • Their tiny synthetic genome did not encode any metabolic genes, which would let the cell process food and energy, or many of the complex molecules a cell needs.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • Do the formal vocabularies that are supposed to encode my field actually capture how the people in it think?
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of encode
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  • The real challenge from AI will likely emerge in the weeks and months ahead as firms cipher through Judge Mehta’s enforcement of behavioral requirements.
    — Tor Constantino, Forbes.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • These remnants, signals from an earlier phase of our human condition, have been endlessly ciphered by generations of archaeologists in the Bears Ears region (which is named for twin buttes near its center).
    — STEPHEN NASH, New York Times, 25 July 2017
Definition of cipher
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  • How the genes that encode those proteins are regulated depends on some of the genome that doesn’t code for proteins.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
  • The children of service business owners also grew up, learned how to code, and wanted to make an impact on their family business.
    — Joe Toscano, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
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“Encrypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encrypt. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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