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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
“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
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
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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
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
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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Vocabulary lists containing alphabet
Civilizations and Peoples of the Fertile Crescent, Lessons 3–4
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