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alphabet

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


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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

“It’s an alphabet soup of configurations that can be incredibly confusing,” Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore, told MarketWatch about all the premium screening options.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

Now he's taken that alphabet and turned it into a certified Eurovision banger.

From BBC May 15, 2026

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

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

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

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

From the beginnings of literacy in China, it has had only a single writing system, whereas modern Europe uses dozens of modified alphabets.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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