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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

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

Amil and I went outside after Dadi made us write the alphabet ten times even though I’ve been writing my alphabet since I was six.

From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani

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

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

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




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