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alpha

[al-fuh] / ˈæl fə /
NOUN
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With every merger there’s a dominant and a submissive, an alpha and a beta, a winner and a loser.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

“I think he really loves playing the alpha male who’s starting to crumble.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Much of AI adoption thus far has involved migrating a company’s “proprietary way of doing things, their alpha, into the lab models, and that’s where the negative sentiment is in an enterprise,” Karp said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 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

He only saw that the alpha here, this odd, unpredictable tiger, had been very excited.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

If zoomers are delicate snowflakes, alphas are the opposite — a horde of marauders chasing Drunk Elephant beauty products.

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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