alphabet
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
The penguin’s voice teaches the alphabet and counting, among other educational features.
—Maya Polton, Parents, 29 Mar. 2024
The lists include carnivals, alphabets, and equestrian games; traditions of boatbuilding and polyphonic song; systems of irrigation, navigation, divination, and conflict remediation; and at least one constitution—the Manden Charter, proclaimed eight centuries ago in present-day Mali.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2024
The method is also accelerated — while most kindergarten curriculums may only introduce the alphabet, for example, Spalding teaches all of the letter combination sounds needed to read, as well as simple and compound sentences.
—The Arizona Republic, 28 Jan. 2024
The picture book will teach young readers the alphabet with illustrations of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and her companions on the Nostromo.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 28 Dec. 2023
Medigap policies are standardized, and there are typically about eight different plans from which a new Medicare enrollee can choose (denoted by letter of the alphabet), all with varying benefits and costs.
—The Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2024
How to read Roman numerals Roman numerals use letters of the alphabet and used in combination the higher the number.
—Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
Afterall, this floating ice shelf is comprised of snow that dropped before the rise and fall of Rome, before Jesus or the Buddha were born, before the invention of the alphabet.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 7 Feb. 2024
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alphabet
noun
Middle English alphabete "alphabet," derived from Greek alphabētos "alphabet," from alpha and bēta, the first and second letters of the Greek alphabet
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