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a collection or system of rules of conduct
Hammurabi was an ancient king of Babylon with a famous code of laws the tax code
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Recent Examples of code
Chrissy Suttles, Axios, 24 Feb. 2025
Suspicious of Cameron’s motives, Iris steals the code and goes on the run, setting off a cat-and-mouse chase with the clock ticking for Iris to figure out what the code could unleash before she is found.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
Andrea Suozzo, ProPublica, 20 Feb. 2025
Top of the list: Adding a second bath and bringing the basement staircase up to code in order to transform the storage zone into a finished living area (which now doubles as a guest room thanks to a Murphy bed tucked into a pair of bookcases).
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 9 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Use a code to unlock your unit and snag the veggies.
—Chrissy Suttles, Axios, 24 Feb. 2025
Suspicious of Cameron’s motives, Iris steals the code and goes on the run, setting off a cat-and-mouse chase with the clock ticking for Iris to figure out what the code could unleash before she is found.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
Verb
Changes in the frequency of a diagnosis code can signal a change in patient health but also a change in coding practices.
—Andrea Suozzo, ProPublica, 20 Feb. 2025
Top of the list: Adding a second bath and bringing the basement staircase up to code in order to transform the storage zone into a finished living area (which now doubles as a guest room thanks to a Murphy bed tucked into a pair of bookcases).
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 9 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for code
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The groups had argued that the new policy allowing immigration arrests at places that were previously considered protected violates their First Amendment rights and burdens the free exercise of religion under federal law.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
24 Feb. 2025
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That April, the Ukrainian parliament passed a law declaring that any Russian serviceman who provided Ukraine with one of Russia’s more advanced military planes would receive a million dollars.—
Joshua Yaffa,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Orbán has remained in power since, winning the elections of 2014, 2018 and 2022, thanks in part to new election laws Fidesz-KDNP introduced with the new constitution.—
Peter Aitken,
Newsweek,
22 Feb. 2025
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Voters in November rejected Proposition 6, which would have changed the state’s constitution to say it, along with slavery, is not allowed.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacramento Bee,
21 Feb. 2025
Verb
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And Moderna in September 2024 launched an efficacy trial in adults of a vaccine that uses messenger RNAs encoding VP1s from multiple variants (although not GII.17).—
ByJon Cohen,
science.org,
13 Jan. 2025
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Chief Kingdom Birds love is encoded in Philly's DNA, and this team is easy to get behind.—
Ross Terrell,
Axios,
4 Feb. 2025
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All data is encrypted to protect patients' privacy.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
19 Feb. 2025
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Advanced Encryption Protocols Ensure that your firm thoroughly encrypts its confidential and client data so that anyone who wrongfully accesses it cannot make sense of it without the proper key.—
Chad Sands,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Code.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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