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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
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
Can you name the best performing nation at World Cups for each letter of the alphabet?
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
I feel as if I need to make up a new alphabet to be able to create the words that would summon up the stew of smells out here.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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
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
The third and last innovation leading to modern alphabets was to provide for vowels.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing alphabet
Civilizations and Peoples of the Fertile Crescent, Lessons 3–4
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for November 12–November 18, 2022
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for May 4–May 10, 2024
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