beta
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“Beneath the Mist,” another action-adventure game, is also undergoing beta testing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Actresses Rachel Sennott and Kristen Bell are among the celebrities who have spoken publicly about taking beta blockers, along with the influencer Khloé Kardashian.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Inactive GRK2 appeared to increase production of amyloid beta, a protein fragment that is considered a main cause of Alzheimer's.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
A beta above 1 means an individual stock tends to see bigger swings than the broader market.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
This is different from beta decay, in which a neutron is transformed into a proton by the emission of an electron.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Defensive stocks in consumer staples, utilities, and healthcare, with betas larger than -0.1%, tend to gain when the market declines.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Consider the performance of a hypothetical portfolio that buys the 10% of stocks with the highest betas and sells short the decile of stocks with the lowest betas.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2025
“We’re betas pretending to be alphas,” Denton said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
If you missed out on those betas, you can at least get some idea of what the game will look like by watching some Overwatch League.
From The Verge ● Aug. 16, 2022
Greek letters move across the undersides of his eyelids: isosceles triangles, betas, sine curves.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
