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alphabet

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


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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

“It’s an alphabet soup of configurations that can be incredibly confusing,” Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore, told MarketWatch about all the premium screening options.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

Rapping mediums, including the Fox sisters, began pointing to an alphabet written on cards; rather than calling it aloud.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

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

Above the stage, “Elvis” was spelled out in different alphabets, and there were flashing lights that presented an image of him swiveling with a guitar.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2023

The tea leaves had their own alphabets and conveyed messages once the tea was gone.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye




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