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alphabet

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


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"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

Now he's taken that alphabet and turned it into a certified Eurovision banger.

From BBC May 15, 2026

Before our kids even learn the alphabet, we hand them tablets, and we know from neurological imagery that it is rotting their brains.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

When other kids learned the alphabet, he didn’t pay attention.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 4, 2026

But by the time I got to the middle of the alphabet, I had gotten smoother, and we—both of us—were concentrating so hard, I think we generated enough current to connect our brain waves.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

We were born with the language to play and be curious before we even understood letters and alphabets.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2024

She has potty-trained children, taught them Spanish, taught them their alphabets and colors and has made sure they were ready for school by the time they entered kindergarten.

From Seattle Times May 15, 2024

Government linguists devised the modified Roman alphabet adopted in 1928 by Turkey for writing Turkish, as well as the modified Cyrillic alphabets designed for many tribal languages of Russia.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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