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A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet.

Some sentences, commonly used to practice typing skills, are almost, but not quite, pangrams:

• Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

Most pangrams use a few letters several times:

• Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.
• How quickly daft jumping zebras vex.
• Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim.
• Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud.
• Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs.

The "best" pangrams use each letter exactly once, becoming, in the process, close to gibberish:

• Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q.
• Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz.
• Fjord-buck zags whelm qvint pyx.
• J Q Schwartz flung D V Pike my box.
• Junky qoph-flags vext crwd zimb.
• Milk-vat fez bugs qoph-crwd jynx.
• Mr Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx.
• New job: fix Mr. Gluck's hazy TV.
• Quiz my black Whigs export fund.
• Squdgy fez, blank jimp crwth vox.
• Vext cwm fly zing jabs Kurd qoph.

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