alphabet

And they developed an alphabet that evolved into the Roman letters used throughout Western civilization today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

"I can make out all the letters of the alphabet, even the smallest ones," he marvelled, pointing to his phone screen.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

Now he's taken that alphabet and turned it into a certified Eurovision banger.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

Even Americans who have never watched a minute of C-SPAN, or get a little lost in the alphabet soup of other agencies, will probably never forget standing in Yosemite Valley and admiring a towering waterfall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 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

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

A major advantage of shaping photons is that it allows researchers to use high-dimensional encoding alphabets.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 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

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

The third and last innovation leading to modern alphabets was to provide for vowels.

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