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beta

[bey-tuh, bee-] / ˈbeɪ tə, ˈbi- /


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While the new version of Siri AI is still in public beta, essentially a testing phase before broader release, Cook said it is part of "an enormous opportunity for Apple going forward in AI."

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

"Our studies highlight that proinsulin folding is vulnerable to many of the same cellular stresses that cause beta cell failure in type 2 diabetes," said Kaufman.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

As diabetes progresses, however, beta cells increasingly struggle to meet the body's demand for insulin.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 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

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

On June 5, when the chip ETF fell 9.2%, several utility and real estate stocks showed resilience, with betas below one.

From Barron's Jun. 16, 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

In the final segment, we focus on the betas coming out of Cupertino this week.

From The Verge Jul. 15, 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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