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A University of California patent application filed in April 2025 and published in October 2025 describes adding alpha pinene or beta pinene to localized insecticide injections for western drywood termites.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
With every merger there’s a dominant and a submissive, an alpha and a beta, a winner and a loser.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
They look for stocks that move in the opposite direction to the market — what, in finance terms, is called negative beta.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
One important ingredient was TGF-b, transforming growth factor beta.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Yes, beta, we know. We called the front office. They say they will probably let you out soon. They want to make sure that everything is okay before releasing students from school.”
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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’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
