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beta

[bey-tuh, bee-] / ˈbeɪ tə, ˈbi- /


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The free AI program starts beta testing in September.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

One important ingredient was TGF-b, transforming growth factor beta.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

ETFs have made it easier for conventional investors to express “the debasement narrative,” with bitcoin becoming the “higher beta sibling” of gold for the same macro trade, according to Innes.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

“Beneath the Mist,” another action-adventure game, is also undergoing beta testing.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

So I went down and spoke to Doerr and Jim Clark, and I began using the beta version of the Mosaic browser.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

Any beta higher than 1 means a stock is more volatile than the S&P 500, while betas of less than 1 are less wild.

From Barron's Dec. 1, 2025

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’re on the developer betas for macOS or iOS, you can start using passkeys now where available.

From The Verge Aug. 5, 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




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