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beta

[bay-tuh, bee-] / ˈbeɪ tə, ˈbi- /


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Lowering amyloid beta in the bloodstream does not necessarily mean that amyloid plaques in the brain will decrease or that Alzheimer's disease can be prevented.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Amyloid beta concentrations fell by approximately 50%, reaching levels comparable to those in young rats.

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

Radium emitted alpha particles at a meager 7.6 million electron volts and beta rays—that is, electrons—at only 3 million volts.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Any beta higher than 1 means a stock is more volatile than the S&P 500, while betas of less than 1 are less wild.

From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025

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

But Apple’s also made an under-the-radar change to some of the iPhone’s sounds, which some of us hear at The Verge noticed while using the betas.

From The Verge ● Aug. 24, 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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