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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
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
Sometimes the person calling the alphabet spoke too quickly or made mistakes.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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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
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
A far more important line evolved by way of the Aramaic alphabet, used for official documents of the Persian Empire, into the modern Arabic, Hebrew, Indian, and Southeast Asian alphabets.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Vocabulary lists containing alphabet
Civilizations and Peoples of the Fertile Crescent, Lessons 3–4
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