alpha

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

“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

In 1935 the dominant lab in this category had been the Cavendish, which specialized in reactions induced by alpha rays and protons; Berkeley could only compete in research on deuterons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The implications are alarming, since there currently are four industry groupings within the S&P 1,500 index that have trailing two-year alphas of at least 100 percentage points.

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

The two alphas publicly questioning the mentality of the England team is something that could come back to haunt them later in the tour.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2025

In California, children are expected to be able to read around December of first grade, meaning the majority of alphas should have been literate by New Year’s Day.

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