How to Use decoder in a Sentence

decoder

noun
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  • This is where a Trump decoder ring would come in handy.
    — Michael Smolens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2018
  • But in Wiener, the Bay Area now has a brilliant decoder.
    — The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 25 Dec. 2020
  • One of Grok’s unique features is a kind of X drama decoder ring.
    — Emilia David, The Verge, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The core instruction decoder width and the number of ALUs were increased.
    — Kevin Krewell, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • In the meantime, use our symptom decoder to find out what your vagina is trying to tell you.
    — Health.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Mr. Lorius becomes a student of snow, a decoder of ice.
    — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Pier 9 itself can be entered through the central arch (those blue signs are like decoder rings!).
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Your destiny may be written in your genes, but researchers are still struggling with the decoder ring.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2010
  • There’s also a new display engine, twice the system cache, and a new video encoder as well as a new decoder.
    — Zach Epstein, BGR, 14 Sep. 2021
  • With a cheap decoder, Saudis (and other Arabs) can watch with only a slight delay.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • Some of Chip Kelly's coaching mantras have required a decoder.
    — Ben Bolch, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Lone Star has even launched dual decoder apps in the iTunes and Android stores for users struggling with their harder bottle caps.
    — John Boyd, Houston Chronicle, 7 July 2018
  • The rest of the special gives its young viewers a decoder ring for those messages, and permission to disregard them.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • But this winter has seen a spate of hyper specific breakup anthems that don’t need decoder rings.
    — Vulture, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Poor little Annie didn’t have the equipment, but her secret decoder would be helpful all over the MoMA show.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The result suggests that the A.I. decoder was capturing not just words but also meaning.
    — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • But users need software components on both encoder side and decoder side.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The electrodes recorded neural signals and sent them to a speech decoder, which translated the signals into the words the man intended to say.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2022
  • But some outstanding questions, such as how the decoder might work in someone who is paralyzed, linger.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2019
  • But the media, always searching for a decoder ring for Trump, will keep looking to those who do not represent Trump and construct Trumpism out of whole cloth.
    — Ben Shapiro, National Review, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The chip will contain the usual media block of dedicated encoders and decoders for motion video.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2018
  • State-of-the-art brain signal decoders would correlate neural firing patterns with what the subjects were seeing.
    — Elizabeth Finkel, Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023
  • In this study, the researchers showed that the decoder only worked with the knowledge and cooperation of the subject—and a model trained for one person wouldn’t work with another.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 May 2023
  • But especially when there was something unusual or unhealthy, your past is the decoder for their present.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Thankfully, Malik posted a shirtless pic of himself last week, which is a helpful decoder ring in this mystery.
    — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 6 June 2018
  • The decoder can’t guess each word precisely, but the overall similarity in meaning has still stunned its creators.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2023
  • Many, like the East German gas pump, vandalized bust of Lenin and a Stasi briefcase concealing a decoder, might qualify as dadaist sculptures themselves.
    — Tony Perrottet, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
  • When played through an MQA decoder, the full, rich studio sound is unfolded -- exceeding that of most recordings made with the highest sample rates commonly in use today.
    — Richard Smirke, Billboard, 15 May 2017
  • Finally, the decoder turns the compressed data back into audio in real time using a neural network on a single CPU.
    — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The decoders of a real alien message from afar ... may not necessarily need to be astrophysicists or linguists.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 July 2017

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