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alphabet

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


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Color is so fundamental to how we describe the world that we learn its vocabulary almost as early as the alphabet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 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

"You can start playing around with the much larger code. It's like adding one more letter to the alphabet."

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026

Barbara used a Caesar cipher, which replaces each letter with one farther along in the alphabet.

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




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