In a sentence
Six example sentences with alpha, each labelled with its topic.
The lab notebook marked each sample with a Greek letter, and the earliest batch simply carried alpha.
Science
Our guild names its raid squads after Greek letters, so the first squad on the bracket carries alpha.
Gaming
The poet numbered her sonnet cycle with Greek letters, opening at alpha and closing, twenty-three poems later, at omega.
Literature
Aristotle's Metaphysics opens with a book editors have always labeled alpha, following the Greek habit of numbering by letter.
Philosophy
Greek merchants wrote alpha for the number one, since their counting system borrowed the letters in order.
History
When the font team added Greek script, the designer drew alpha first and matched every other letter's weight to it.
Technology
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