How to Use alphanumeric in a Sentence
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The legends on the alphanumeric keys are sharp and even without being overly thin.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2022
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They were each given two minutes to shower, and addressed by staff with an alphanumeric code, rather than their names.
—Griff Witte, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2019
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Users can also set up a longer, alphanumeric passcode that’s harder for bad actors to figure out.
—Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
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Carr flipped through the letter, skimming the alphanumeric sequence.
—Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
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Along with the alphanumeric legend standard on most keyboards, there's an additional set of legends printed in blue and orange.
—PCMAG, 15 Sep. 2023
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This led to Morse’s eponymous code, which assigns a series of short and long signals to different alphanumeric characters.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025
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What gets reflected on the blockchain are alphanumeric hexadecimal values that humans cannot easily read.
—Zain Jaffer, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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But even adding a special character or alphanumeric combination can only add so much protection from bad actors.
—Jennifer Korn, CNN, 3 May 2023
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When coronavirus variants emerged in full force in late 2020, the news suddenly turned into alphanumeric soup.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022
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Both are composed of generic domain names followed by a pseudorandom alphanumeric string of seven to nine characters.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2019
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Until now, there has been an alphanumeric naming scheme (P1) but that is giving away to a Greek-alphabet naming scheme.
—WSJ, 11 June 2021
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Cadillac has made other attempts at re-invention, including a shift to alphanumeric names for its vehicles before going back to names again.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 22 July 2022
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Lately however, the post-Omicron news landscape is turning into alphanumeric soup again.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022
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On some Corsair keyboards, these programmable keys are part of the standard alphanumeric keys, while on others, there are dedicated keys for them.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
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That ute's lack of an alphanumeric model name was confusing, and things didn't become any clearer with the arrival of the e-tron GT performance sedan.
—Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 22 Dec. 2022
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The biggest problem is that blockchain technology is mostly anonymous, with the data comprised of alphanumeric characters.
—Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2022
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There’s a reason the Defender outlasts every alphanumeric SUV badge that’s tried to compete with it.
—Ali Aydan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
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For example, each Louis Vuitton bag made since 1982 bears an alphanumeric code that can help authenticate a piece.
—Alesandra Dubin, Glamour, 5 Apr. 2022
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Unionized health care coders, who assign alphanumeric codes to medical procedures and services for billing purposes, earn about $30 per hour to start, according to the union.
—Taryn Luna, sacbee, 27 Apr. 2018
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Using hard-to-crack alphanumeric code to unlock your phone rather than a four digit PIN or biometrics is the strongest approach to securing the device.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2025
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Formerly anonymous public servants became the topic of vicious debate among strangers with alphanumeric Twitter handles and pictures of dogs as online avatars.
—Damian Garde, STAT, 26 Dec. 2019
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These services make the process of dealing with cryptocurrencies less about long alphanumeric addresses and QR codes to something more like Venmo or a banking app.
—Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2019
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To conduct a transaction, a user must also have a bitcoin wallet with an alphanumeric address, which stores private keys for authorizing transfers and public keys for receiving funds.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
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After scheduling and paying for tests, the provider is supposed to generate an alphanumeric reference that must be indicated in the passenger locator form.
—Anne Quito, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2021
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Even Pulp Fiction, which is a '90s film, is built to look like an early '80s game, complete with alphanumeric displays and a simpler playfield layout.
—Aurich Lawson, Ars Technica, 7 May 2024
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The first is a decentralized database that maps people’s phone numbers to public encryption keys, alphanumeric strings required for transacting in cryptocurrency.
—Robert Hackett, Fortune, 22 June 2018
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The readout is visually closer to an LED clock radio than a smart display and is only slightly more flexible than a purely alphanumeric output.
—PCMAG, 25 Mar. 2025
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Birders were able to decipher a unique alphanumeric code on a flamingo that had been banded at Río Lagartos, a breeding colony in Mexico, Lorenz said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2023
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The Taiwanese company began operations in 1995 and sells alphanumeric pagers as well as the kind of beepers that alert customers in restaurants that their order is ready.
—Greg McKenna, Fortune Asia, 18 Sep. 2024
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As a technical matter, unlocking many smartphones is a trivial problem once the device is in the hands of a forensic technician, especially if the phone is locked with only numbers and not an alphanumeric password.
—Mattathias Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 8 Oct. 2020
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