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alphabet

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


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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

“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

Because it was the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, the children gathered inside the prayer hall to recite the Quran, she recalls, before she began teaching her pupils a new letter of the Persian alphabet.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

And they developed an alphabet that evolved into the Roman letters used throughout Western civilization today.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

I try to figure out the alphabet so I can write in Chinese, but I give up so I can read our place settings—which explain the Chinese Zodiac.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle

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

Exhausted, Penelope hustled the children back to the nursery and made them copy alphabets on slates with their slate pencils, while she drank three cups of milky tea to settle her nerves.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood




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