How to Use alphabet soup in a Sentence

alphabet soup

noun
  • An alphabet soup of acronyms has also emerged to bridge the gaps.
    Meena Venkataramanan, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Dozens of Airlines The list of defunct airlines is longer than a 747, and filled with more acronyms than a bowl of alphabet soup.
    Ryan Craggs, CNT, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Don't get too bogged down in the alphabet soup of characters.
    Alyssa Newcomb, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Back in 2013, there had been nearly a thousand rebel groups, an alphabet soup of acronyms.
    Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Keeanu Benton doesn’t have a taste for alphabet soup. NFL?
    Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Amid the alphabet soup of C-roles, is the CTO title destined to be pushed out and fade away forever?
    Kris Fitzgerald, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • That follows an alphabet soup of initiatives, cooked up over the past few years.
    The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • There’s an alphabet soup to make sense of when choosing the best air purifier for your home.
    Popular Science, 15 Mar. 2021
  • And the alphabet soup of US agencies are seemingly keeping their focus on the threat.
    Laura Defrancesco, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The effort devolved into a cross between alphabet soup and a game of hot potato.
    Andrew Selsky, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
  • But the limpet’s peachy insides were riddled with clonal sacks of parasitic worms, bobbing in the flesh like the noodles in alphabet soup.
    Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
  • During the past two decades, he’s fought with an alphabet soup of different militias and armies in both Rwanda and Congo.
    Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The alphabet soup of state and local climate laws will be more important than ever.
    Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
  • That was boxing back then, before all the alphabet soup belts and champions who decided two fights a year was more than enough.
    Greg Bishop, SI.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Dodge created a few of their own order combinations just in case the options list starts to taste like alphabet soup.
    Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The Fed has gotten creative in previous crises, using an alphabet soup of fixes in the depths of the financial meltdown.
    Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • An alphabet soup of groups have held rallies and put out statements and online ads for or against this push to relax zoning restrictions.
    Teo Armus, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The omicron subvariants seem like an alphabet soup of letters and numbers.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 May 2022
  • The Omicron subvariants seem like an alphabet soup of letters and numbers.
    Louis Jacobsonpolitifact, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
  • An alphabet soup of concepts underpins the new base network.
    David Axe, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • Speaking in Honda tongue feels like coughing up alphabet soup.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 15 Nov. 2022
  • And when a 15-year-old girl is traumatized by the people who are supposed to protect her, Bach, the IOC and the rest of the suits in the alphabet soup could care more about having her back than covering their own backsides.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The reason is that there's a veritable alphabet soup of genes which pop out of the numerous studies focusing on these traits.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2011
  • There’s an alphabet soup of acronyms to consider when selecting an air cleaner.
    Elizabeth Miller, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
  • Besides, those important questions won’t be posed only by people with an alphabet soup of Ph.ds and MFAs after their names.
    Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The Omicron variant has burst into an alphabet soup of subvariants.
    CBS News, 14 Oct. 2022
  • In other words, the whole alphabet soup of molecular genetics.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2010
  • We snorkel through alphabet soup, collecting spoons and toothbrushes and bottle caps.
    Rowan Jacobsen, Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Along with them are Greek characters and an alphabet soup of letters and numbers employed by a variety of star catalogs.
    Gregory McNamee and Illustrations By Ian Berry, CNN, 25 May 2021
  • If applied at the national level, a more generous UBI could perhaps replace the alphabet soup of anti-poverty programs with a single check delivered monthly to all households.
    Karl W. Smith, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2024

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