alpha and omega
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The year is barely three weeks old and already we've been gifted with what may be the alpha and omega of 2022's self-owns in Vulture's interview with Joss Whedon.
From Salon • Jan. 22, 2022
Second, insisting that Dr. Seuss books are the alpha and omega of children’s literature shows a tiresome lack of imagination.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2021
Those who find superheroes the alpha and omega of comics date the end of the golden age to some time in the postwar 1940s when interest in the genre faded.
From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2019
And there are some people on this bench that think that that is the alpha and omega of every constitutional question.
From Slate • Dec. 6, 2018
The screen responded as quickly as thought itself, and out of the welter of lines and flashes a series of pictures formed with perfect clarity: compasses, alpha and omega again, lightning, angel.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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