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Can you name the best performing nation at World Cups for each letter of the alphabet?
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
"I can make out all the letters of the alphabet, even the smallest ones," he marvelled, pointing to his phone screen.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
When other kids learned the alphabet, he didn’t pay attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026
Each letter in a standard Caesar cipher is replaced by the one three spots down the alphabet so an ‘A’ becomes a ‘D.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
Kate was able to mirror-write a message using her right hand, call the alphabet when raps sounded, and take down a separate rapped message with her left hand, at the same time.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Czernowitz was by then a Habsburg afterimage: Jews, Germans, Romanians, Ukrainians and Poles, brushing past one another in schools, markets and cafes, their lives conducted in competing alphabets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
A major advantage of shaping photons is that it allows researchers to use high-dimensional encoding alphabets.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2026
We were born with the language to play and be curious before we even understood letters and alphabets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
So the Shakespeare skeptics were convinced that by looking closely at the letters used to spell each word in Shakespeare’s works, they could make out two different alphabets and uncover a code from Francis Bacon.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023
They had never developed alphabets or rules for spelling, never set their histories down in stone.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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Vocabulary lists containing alphabet
Civilizations and Peoples of the Fertile Crescent, Lessons 3–4
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