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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

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

“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

Like the Greeks, the Hebrews used letters from their alphabet to represent numbers, so every word had a numerical value.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

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

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

Restricting signs to those for single consonants was only the first of three crucial innovations that distinguished alphabets from other writing systems.

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




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