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Free sign upThe phrase "for the nonce" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is used to indicate that something is done or true only for the present moment or a specific occasion. For example, "The board has agreed to postpone the meeting for the nonce."
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for the nonce
adverb
For the time being, with the expectation that the situation may change.
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For the nonce.
But credulity, for the nonce, feels so much better.
Tell all my friends that for the nonce.
By James Thurber The New Yorker, April 23 , 1938P. 19 Tell all my friends that for the nonce View Article By John Cassidy By Kathryn Schulz By Adam Davidson By Robin Wright.
The sea hath fish for every man, And what would you have more?" Thus did my mistress once Amaze my mind with doubt; And popped a question for the nonce To beat my brains about.
A sepia-tone image of Jas in a fringed vest, his Wild Bill Hickok goatee graying, and the message "I'm back in N.Y.C., and, for the nonce, this is what I'm doing".
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For the utility, however, these are indistinguishable from the nonce.
The configuration operation mode is slower if using CAESAR candidates because the cryptographic key and nonce have 128 bits instead of the 60 bits of the key and 32 bits of the nonce in HMAC.
Note that is included in the signature instead of the nonce supplied by the control station.
The only purpose of the nonce here is to prevent repeated sending of identical plaintexts from generating the same ciphertext.
In a police interview, McLoughlin told officers: "I'm not sorry for what I did to the nonce, but I'm sorry for what I did to the pensioner".
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