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alphabet

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


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Before our kids even learn the alphabet, we hand them tablets, and we know from neurological imagery that it is rotting their brains.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

When other kids learned the alphabet, he didn’t pay attention.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

In their experiments, these structures reached a record 48 dimensions and included more than 17,000 distinct topological signatures, creating a vast new "alphabet" for encoding stable quantum information.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

The American presidency is an alphabet soup of acronyms.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

She was afraid he might ask her to say the Armenian alphabet or something, which she certainly didn’t know.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye




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