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beta

[bey-tuh, bee-] / ˈbeɪ tə, ˈbi- /


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The company plans to begin beta service with select mobile-network partners in 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

It includes one-year beta, which is a measure of volatility when compared with that of the S&P 500.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

“It came to our attention that a third party collections agency made a reporting error for a small subset of customers with our original beta program,” the spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

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

“You are still our daughter, and after yesterday...oh, my beta, if anything would have happened...”

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

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

If the recipient of your attempted rug-sweeping isn’t running the public betas on every device they use for iMessage, you’re the only one who will see history as you wish you’d written it.

From The Verge Jul. 14, 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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