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general or basic truths on which other truths or theories can be based you need to learn the alphabet of genealogy before you can move on to more advanced study

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Recent Examples of alphabet The beginning of the alphabet might be a great place to start! Stephanie Kasulka, Parents, 4 Feb. 2025 Reverence for farmers For all of the attempts at a solution, the alphabet agencies and the technological advances, there’s a big reason it’s been easy for politicians to stay out of the way: A lot of people don’t want outsiders getting involved. Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025 Astronomers denote variable stars by giving them a letter, and in this case T Tauri was the 20th variable star to be found in Taurus, while T being is 20th letter of the alphabet. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025 The alphabet has announced a second season of Olseon’s High Potential, which opened the new year with its largest audience - 12.9 million - across all platforms over seven days, according to Nielsen. Marc Berman, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for alphabet 
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  • Some of the stream's elements worked, but it was still plagued by technical mishaps.
    Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 24 Dec. 2024
  • But what stood out the most about the whole look was none of these elements.
    María Munsuri, Glamour, 24 Dec. 2024
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  • Since scammers may be non-native English speakers, poor grammar or unusual vernacular can also be a tip off of someone taking on a fake identity.
    Rachel Hale, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Today’s Supreme Court unanimously and actively embraces a progressive writing style, rebelling against old-school grammar rules, according to my study of 10,000 pages of opinions from the past decade.
    Jill Barton, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
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  • The world is currently in the opening stages of a massive new agricultural revolution that is combining recent advances in high tech and data sciences with traditional agricultural methods to meet the challenges of the 21st century on a sustainable basis.
    Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025
  • This area is known for its bustling immigrant street vendors, but lately there's been Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer sightings on a near daily basis, and it's gotten quieter.
    Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 15 Feb. 2025

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“Alphabet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alphabet. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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