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
  • For many people, talk of bonds and yields and markets might sound like alphabet soup.
    — Allie Canal, NBC news, 20 May 2026
  • Don't get too bogged down in the alphabet soup of characters.
    — Alyssa Newcomb, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Most of your followers don't care about your alphabet soup.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • That follows an alphabet soup of initiatives, cooked up over the past few years.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • As the alphabet soup suggests, there are still some things to finalize with this tech.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2024
  • There’s an alphabet soup to make sense of when choosing the best air purifier for your home.
    — Popular Science, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The Gear, Explained First of all, what is all this alphabet soup?
    — John Werner, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The effort devolved into a cross between alphabet soup and a game of hot potato.
    — Andrew Selsky, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The alphabet soup of state and local climate laws will be more important than ever.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
  • Speaking in Honda tongue feels like coughing up alphabet soup.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Back in 2013, there had been nearly a thousand rebel groups, an alphabet soup of acronyms.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • What’s not in it is the alphabet soup of preservative enhancements that the health-minded crowd tries to avoid.
    — Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • There’s an alphabet soup of acronyms to consider when selecting an air cleaner.
    — Elizabeth Miller, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
  • The omicron subvariants seem like an alphabet soup of letters and numbers.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 May 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
  • 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.
    — Louis Jacobsonpolitifact, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
  • 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
  • But for now, its studio is crowded with an alphabet soup of glass tubing and metal letters as tall as 56 inches.
    — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • And the alphabet soup of US agencies are seemingly keeping their focus on the threat.
    — Laura Defrancesco, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022
  • As January trudges, many of us have already started receiving the alphabet soup of yearly tax forms.
    — Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The key is for business leaders to look beyond the buzzwords and the alphabet soup of model types to realize the use cases of AI.
    — Toni Pisano, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • With this in mind, a new alphabet soup title — chief communications and AI officer — could be on the horizon.
    — Eleanor Hawkins, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024

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