alphabet soup
noun
a soup containing small noodles in the shapes of letters of the alphabet.
Origin of alphabet soup
1First recorded in 1905–10
Words Nearby alphabet soup
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How to use alphabet soup in a sentence
Finding available names is especially difficult, which is why many pharmaceutical drugs just sound like random alphabet soup.
Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem | Shira Feder | October 22, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThis alphabet soup is supposed to provide a shorthand for insiders, but it can also lead to things getting lost in translation.
Future of TV Briefing: What we talk about when we talk about TV | Tim Peterson | August 25, 2021 | DigidayCybersecurity oversight is divided among an alphabet soup of agencies, hampering coordination.
The Colonial pipeline ransomware hackers had a secret weapon: self-promoting cybersecurity firms | Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden | May 24, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThe Liberian civil conflict was a bewildering alphabet soup of acronyms, each a rebel group led by a warlord.
Liberian Nostalgia for War Criminal Charles Taylor | Finlay Young | April 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are by their nature and design alphabet soup.
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