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alphabet

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


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When other kids learned the alphabet, he didn’t pay attention.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

Each letter in a standard Caesar cipher is replaced by the one three spots down the alphabet so an ‘A’ becomes a ‘D.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 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

The American presidency is an alphabet soup of acronyms.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

It was because of those instructions that Grandma kept me up most nights and taught me the alphabet, multiplication, addition, reading, and writing.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals




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