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alphabet

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


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

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

Each letter in a standard Caesar cipher is replaced by the one three spots down the alphabet so an ‘A’ becomes a ‘D.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 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

“Yesterday she informed me that Brooks should know his alphabet by now.”

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko




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