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alphabet

[al-fuh-bet, -bit] / ˈæl fəˌbɛt, -bɪt /


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Before our kids even learn the alphabet, we hand them tablets, and we know from neurological imagery that it is rotting their brains.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

"Korean is known as the most scientific language on the planet and the actual alphabet you can learn in four hours," she said.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

When other kids learned the alphabet, he didn’t pay attention.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

In their experiments, these structures reached a record 48 dimensions and included more than 17,000 distinct topological signatures, creating a vast new "alphabet" for encoding stable quantum information.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

The characters he created represented syllables rather than letter sounds, so it is called a syllabary rather than an alphabet.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz




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