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All known life on Earth relies on the same four-letter genetic alphabet.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
Letters of the alphabet corresponded to musical notes, and the title of each piece of “music” contained other clues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
And speaking of word games … For a juicy twist on a game involving the letters of the alphabet, may we recommend Slate’s Pears?
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
But the head of the dig discouraged him from learning this "very difficult" script, which borrowed its cuneiform alphabet from Assyrian.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
To create a simple keyword cipher, you first write out the alphabet.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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
The database includes misspellings, mixed alphabets, and coded inscriptions.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025
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
She has potty-trained children, taught them Spanish, taught them their alphabets and colors and has made sure they were ready for school by the time they entered kindergarten.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
Actually, most alphabets consist of only about 20 or 30 letters, and most languages have more phonemes than their alphabets have letters.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Civilizations and Peoples of the Fertile Crescent, Lessons 3–4
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