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But over time, the system grew into an alphabet soup of programs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
The characters he created represented syllables rather than letter sounds, so it is called a syllabary rather than an alphabet.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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
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
Actually, most alphabets consist of only about 20 or 30 letters, and most languages have more phonemes than their alphabets have letters.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Civilizations and Peoples of the Fertile Crescent, Lessons 3–4
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