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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The embassy was ordered to destroy its cipher equipment and remaining codes.
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The women are strong characters, but the men in this movie are mere ciphers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A pair of rock crystal goblets engraved with the cipher of Peter the Great.
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He was a cipher to me, a silent man of abstracted benevolence, and I never got to know him well.
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No one is a cipher , and Maloney tries to give his subjects a character, a singular demeanour and poise.
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One bears the Romanov double-headed eagle, another the cipher of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth.
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The first would be to protect Britain's own secrets by developing the necessary cipher machines, codes and operating procedures.
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When I felt outrage was I simply a cipher for cultural prejudice?