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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
"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
When other kids learned the alphabet, he didn’t pay attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026
When the end of the alphabet is reached, it loops back around to ‘A.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
I wouldn’t have to recite the alphabet for Branwell.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
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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
A major advantage of shaping photons is that it allows researchers to use high-dimensional encoding alphabets.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2026
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
Above the stage, “Elvis” was spelled out in different alphabets, and there were flashing lights that presented an image of him swiveling with a guitar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
The earliest preserved examples of the Etruscan and Roman alphabets are also inscriptions on drinking cups and wine containers.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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