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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

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

I started when I was two; it was my nursery school and kindergarten; I learned the alphabet there, from a picture book called The Bible Letter Book.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

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

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

Much more often, we know nothing about the individuals responsible for devising famous alphabets of the past.

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




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