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alphabet

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


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

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Can you name the best performing nation at World Cups for each letter of the alphabet?

From BBC Jul. 10, 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

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

All of a sudden, in the dense alphabet forest of the page, little black tulips began to pop up in a quick, random pattern like falling raindrops.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

Exhausted, Penelope hustled the children back to the nursery and made them copy alphabets on slates with their slate pencils, while she drank three cups of milky tea to settle her nerves.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood




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