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alphabet

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


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That finding helps explain why the enzyme can accurately copy information written using an expanded 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

In three years, he said, he mastered the alphabet, but "it took me 22 years to master 650 words" of vocabulary.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

When Liyana considered the echoes bouncing off the walls of Jerusalem, she felt like the dot on an i in an American alphabet book for babies.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

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

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

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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