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alpha

[al-fuh] / ˈæl fə /
NOUN
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“I think he really loves playing the alpha male who’s starting to crumble.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Much of AI adoption thus far has involved migrating a company’s “proprietary way of doing things, their alpha, into the lab models, and that’s where the negative sentiment is in an enterprise,” Karp said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

He also courted strong and straight — and unavailable — alpha men to whom he appeared happy to play the beta role of political ingénue.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

Hydrogen alpha light allows astronomers to pinpoint some of the youngest stars hidden inside the glowing gas.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

“Yeah, but you punched the alpha dog in the face,” she said.

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie

The table below lists the four S&P 1,500 sub-industry indexes with trailing two-year alphas of at least 100 percentage points, along with the two largest-cap stocks within each.

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

He and coach Brendon McCullum are two alphas in the England dressing room, possibly leaving little room for the growth of other characters.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2026

And why is it ascendant now, when the last alphas are still in utero?

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

Dr. Phil, however, offered a different perspective, claiming both Swift and Kelce are alphas and pointed to their individual successes.

From Salon ● Feb. 29, 2024

We fired alphas, gammas, betas, the works, in wide dispersion, concentrated beam and just plain exposure.

From Make Mine Homogenized by Kelly Freas


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