as in principles
usually ABC's or ABCs plural
general or basic truths on which other truths or theories can be based
a book on the ABCs of computer usage
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Noun
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It’s typed with such pounding despair and fury that certain letters of the alphabet actually tear through the paper (this was an old, manual typewriter).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025 -
The soft sign is a letter of the Russian alphabet with no sound of its own which softens the preceding consonant.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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However, amid the confusion of new strains, changing vaccine guidelines and cuts to vaccine development funding, the CDC continues to track cases, hospitalizations and deaths on a weekly basis.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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So is this a call to get your hsCRP levels checked on a regular basis?—
Sarah Garone,
Health,
9 Sep. 2025
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While AlphaFold learned the language of amino acids to predict protein shapes, AlphaGenome has learned the complex grammar of the DNA sequence to predict the function of its non-coding regions.—
Miguel Llorca,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Don't Ignore Adverbs Not to make this article into a grammar lesson, but adverbs are another important detail that can easily get glossed over.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The impressive organizational elements also make this option stand out when compared to standard purses.—
Rachel Trujillo,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
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There's very little battlefield action, the war elements mostly taking place in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, where many soldiers, including Australian medical student protagonist Dorrigo Evans (Jacob Elordi), are forced to work on the Burma railway.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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“ABC.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ABC. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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