alpha
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Researchers place the PVC in a solvent, then add aluminum trichloride and alpha olefins.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
“I think he really loves playing the alpha male who’s starting to crumble.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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
Notice that value’s alpha is the greatest when inflation is the highest relative to where it stood a year prior, and vice versa.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
For example, common chimpanzees have a genetic tendency to live in hierarchical groups headed by an alpha male.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
“This guy is a serial winner. I can also tell you how hard it is to have a lot of alphas and make sure that only one will be the alpha.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
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
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
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