alphabet

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

And they developed an alphabet that evolved into the Roman letters used throughout Western civilization today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Can you name the best performing nation at World Cups for each letter of the alphabet?

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

It was because of those instructions that Grandma kept me up most nights and taught me the alphabet, multiplication, addition, reading, and writing.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

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

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

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