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alphabet

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


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All known life on Earth relies on the same four-letter genetic alphabet.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 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

"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

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

At the Underhill’s massive mahogany dining table, the alphabet was called.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Earlier research has already used expanded genetic alphabets to create synthetic DNA molecules capable of recognizing liver cancer cells.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026

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

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

Above the stage, “Elvis” was spelled out in different alphabets, and there were flashing lights that presented an image of him swiveling with a guitar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

Exhausted, Penelope hustled the children back to the nursery and made them copy alphabets on slates with their slate pencils, while she drank three cups of milky tea to settle her nerves.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood




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