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alphabet

noun as in letters of a writing system

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Behind the keys was a lamp board showing the letters of the alphabet.

After a few centuries of remaining at the margins, the alphabet from the Sinai swept through Europe and much of Asia and Africa, changing into the dizzying range we have today.

They come in a million different colors and patterns including the alphabet, daisies, retro cars, and more.

There are 64 codons that can be spelled with the genetic alphabet, but only 20 amino acids to make.

If genetic sequencing is the new language for managing infectious-disease outbreaks, then the mutations that viruses generate are its alphabet.

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“It sometimes seems like we have more contingency plans than there are letters in the alphabet,” he claims.

Best Moment: "I heard your last name was even longer but you ate all the other letters of the alphabet."

To the left was West Pakistan, where they ruled, and spoke Urdu, and wrote in an alphabet that flowed like water under wind.

He falls in love with a girl named Zoe, who “seemed to come from that foreign end of the alphabet.”

When Sendak made an alphabet book, he called it Alligators All Around.

No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.

If a husband were to see his wife drowning, what single letter of the alphabet would he name?

Whatever figure alphabet, however, is used, the main thing about it is to master it thoroughly.

If the pupil has mastered the Figure Alphabet he will proceed with the greatest satisfaction and profit.

For convenience of reference I now give the figure Alphabet tabulated.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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