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alphabet

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


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When the end of the alphabet is reached, it loops back around to ‘A.’

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

In their experiments, these structures reached a record 48 dimensions and included more than 17,000 distinct topological signatures, creating a vast new "alphabet" for encoding stable quantum information.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 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

The American presidency is an alphabet soup of acronyms.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

While there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet, there are 676 possible pairings, and the meaning of each letter in a digraph depends on how it is paired.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield




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