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 am unaware of any other stock-selection approach whose annualized alpha — either positive or negative — is this far from zero.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
“When six alpha females get together there’s bound to be drama, but we never go to bed angry,” says Rachel Castaldi, a part-time preschool teacher in Princeton, N.J.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
“I think he really loves playing the alpha male who’s starting to crumble.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The 184-inch synchrocyclotron was one of the few machines that could accelerate alpha particles to the energies required to produce them.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
The table below lists the four S&P 1,500 sub-industry indexes with trailing two-year alphas of at least 100 percentage points, along with the two largest-cap stocks within each.
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
In California, children are expected to be able to read around December of first grade, meaning the majority of alphas should have been literate by New Year’s Day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
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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