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"I can make out all the letters of the alphabet, even the smallest ones," he marvelled, pointing to his phone screen.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
"Korean is known as the most scientific language on the planet and the actual alphabet you can learn in four hours," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 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
Even Americans who have never watched a minute of C-SPAN, or get a little lost in the alphabet soup of other agencies, will probably never forget standing in Yosemite Valley and admiring a towering waterfall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2026
In addition, the machine encrypted six letters of the alphabet with one cipher, then used an entirely different cipher for the other twenty.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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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
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
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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