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alphabet

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


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All known life on Earth relies on the same four-letter 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

But the head of the dig discouraged him from learning this "very difficult" script, which borrowed its cuneiform alphabet from Assyrian.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

Hangman was gripping the root of my tongue and every letter in the alphabet was a stammer-letter.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

Much more often, we know nothing about the individuals responsible for devising famous alphabets of the past.

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




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