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beta

[bay-tuh, bee-] / ˈbeɪ tə, ˈbi- /


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One substance affected by this change is amyloid beta.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

In response, hepatocytes alter their surfaces in ways that allow them to capture more LDL and amyloid beta from the blood.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

France, and countries with a strong beta to energy such as Italy are key examples.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Negative beta stocks helped limit the S&P 500’s losses during the March selloff and again in July, when the powerful artificial-intelligence-driven momentum trade hit the rocks, Emanuel said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 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

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


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