alpha and omega

noun

Definition of alpha and omeganext
1
as in be-all and end-all

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2
as in center

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Recent Examples of alpha and omega The mosaic also depicts alpha and omega, the first and last letters in the Greek alphabet — when paired, they’re used as a Christian symbol. — Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025 The hosts have been funneling through their alpha and omega of SGA and Jalen Williams. — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 22 June 2025 At the base of the rotunda, serving as an alpha and omega, is Arthur Jafa’s 2016 video Love is the message, the message is Death. — Mark Guiducci, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alpha and omega
  1. be-all and end-all
  2. center
  3. cause
  4. marrow
  5. causality
  6. core
  7. causation
  8. seat
Noun
  • Don’t let one path be your be-all and end-all.
    — Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2026
  • For those whose work is their be-all and end-all, being let go can be earth-shattering.
    — BYOrianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2023
Definition of be-all and end-all
Noun
  • Ben’s view Hoffman, who sometimes works from a small swivel chair in her children’s room, has followed a path from social video into the center of the swirling news cycles of true crime and celebrity.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • After police cordoned off an area in the city center, the situation calmed down by early Sunday morning.
    — Angela Charlton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of center
Noun
  • As a cause of death, hyperthermia often is diagnosed by excluding every other possibility, since body temperature at the time of death is not always available or knowable.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
  • France, Italy, Serbia and Spain have seen protests against the cost of living, among other causes.
    — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of cause
Noun
  • If a crack reaches a giant zucchini’s internal cavity, the zucchini — known as marrow by growers — is disqualified.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Kaluuya embodies Jay, newly released from a psychiatric hospital because Misty ran out of money to pay the bill, all the way down to the marrow.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of marrow
Noun
  • But the causality usually breaks down if resources are allocated by policy interventions that are divorced from returns on investment.
    — Oliver Melton, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Case reports on those deaths and hospitalizations that were submitted to regulators do not prove causality; many of the Vykat cases involved complex medical issues and multiple medications.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of causality
Noun
  • Meanwhile, the MacBook Neo's iPhone-grade chip outperformed Googlebooks’ processors in single-core performance, while losing out on multi-core performance by varying (but overall large) margins.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
  • As that enormous dome thinned through the Holocene, its margin withdrew up onto Baffin Island, and what’s left today is the deflated core of something that was once two miles thick.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of core
Noun
  • The findings show associations, not causation, and our nonrandom sample cannot provide a precise statewide estimate.
    — Sujeong Park, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2026
  • These actions don’t require settling causation between AI chatbot use and social isolation.
    — Ned Cooper, STAT, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of causation
Noun
  • The results released early Friday showed Netanyahu's bloc won 53 seats in Tuesday's election.
    — CARA ANNA, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2026
  • It’s been eight years since Democrats won a statewide office in Florida, 14 years since a Senate seat, and 32 years since the governor’s office.
    — Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2026
Definition of seat

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