alphabet

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

He carved some beautiful alphabet blocks for Ralph and invented a little needle-threader.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Earlier research has already used expanded genetic alphabets to create synthetic DNA molecules capable of recognizing liver cancer cells.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026

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

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