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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

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

The alphabet, thankfully, is nowhere to be seen; if I saw Aa Bb I’d probably start the Cycling again.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

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

The database includes misspellings, mixed alphabets, and coded inscriptions.

From Science Daily Dec. 16, 2025

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

Some of it was in the alphabet he knew, some of it in alphabets he had never seen, with pictures, or great hashed strokes of geometry.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell




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