How to Use beta in a Sentence

beta

1 of 2 noun
  • But Tesla opened the beta up to any car with the right hardware on the same day as the eight-car crash.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The next steps would be rolling out Windows Arm dev and beta channels soon.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024
  • These rolled out in beta on Wednesday (users will have to join a waitlist to try them out).
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In March, when Bluesky launched in invite-only beta, few had even heard of it.
    Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • Strands, the new word-search game still in beta, seems to fuse some of the best features of Wordle, Connections, and the crosswords.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2024
  • More problems have surfaced this week, as the new Bing has been made available to more beta testers.
    WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The Zoom Email and Calendar clients are now available in beta.
    Joe Wituschek, BGR, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Please note that some details of the tools may have changed slightly since they were first released in beta.
    Shelby Putnam Tupper, PCMAG, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Tesla has dropped the price of its full self-driving beta software.
    Emily Price, PCMAG, 3 Sep. 2023
  • More puzzles are added so that players won’t run out during the beta.
    Deb Amlen, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • There are even a couple of lunkhead coworkers at Ben’s job, who take turns being the alpha and the beta nerds.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The game will enter a closed beta on Android that begins Thursday and ends on June 28th.
    Jay Peters, The Verge, 8 June 2023
  • One is the heart beta-blocked by a blend of etiquette and strategy that beats to the rhythm of the clock, of necessity, of the balance of power.
    Bernard-Henri Lévy, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The major benefit is beta-carotene, which can help lower the risk of cancer.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Marienne writes a suicide note and then takes beta blockers to slow her heart rate down enough to appear dead.
    Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 9 Mar. 2023
  • With a patent pending in India, and thousands of people on the wait list, the duo hopes to release the beta version of TranscribeGlass by the end of 2023.
    Ramsha Zubairi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • As of now, this function is only available on the beta web page of Apple Music.
    José Adorno, BGR, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The feature was rolled out for beta testing in November but is now available to all users.
    C Mandler, CBS News, 3 May 2023
  • While the project will take years to complete in full, Amazon is set to start beta testing with customers later this year.
    IEEE Spectrum, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Or, since this is a beta, never make it to general release at all.
    David Phelan, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The full app's release will follow the beta that launches in December.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Quickly Raine falls under her spell, a beta to her new alpha friend.
    Chris Bohjalian, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The site is charging $29 per month for access during the current beta release.
    PCMAG, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Mozilla's first public beta of its Hubs VR meeting place is now open to subscribers for $20 a month.
    PCMAG, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The broken web apps appeared to be a glitch at the time, but this seems less likely now that the broken feature has made its way into the third beta of iOS 17.4.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Apple's newest mobile OS is now in the public beta stage.
    Emily Price, PCMAG, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Machover works extensively with AI in his work and in the beta-testing of ideas from his students.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Mastodon has fewer than 3 million users, and Bluesky, which remains in beta, has just over 1 million.
    WIRED, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Tesla is also throwing in three months of free Full-Self Driving beta to help move cars.
    Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 7 Apr. 2024
  • By adopting the zkEVM mainnet beta, users could in some cases pay 10 or 20 times less for the same number of transactions.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 27 Mar. 2023
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beta

2 of 2 adjective
  • Here’s a blurb that was discovered in the beta version of the app: New!
    Chris Smith, BGR, 15 July 2022
  • The Horned Frogs are also a prime example of the beta version of the Big 12, 2.0.
    Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The specifics of Google's plan are vague right now because even a beta version won't be out until the end of 2022.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Now, Project Alianza is launching the beta phase when the app is refined based on the alpha tests.
    Macie Parker, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
  • Movano intends to release a beta version in the second half of 2022.
    Andrew Williams, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • So far, with the app scheduled to launch in late fall, around 100 artists have uploaded their work to the beta version.
    Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2022
  • The beta variant posed a clear threat to immune protection in a dish.
    Carolyn Y. Johnson, Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2021
  • There weren’t a whole lot of menus to go through, and the software was clearly a beta version that wasn’t ready for primetime.
    Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Despite a string of recalls, Musk said that this year would see FSD emerge from beta status.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2023
  • These three drugs work by removing beta amyloid plaques from the brain.
    Staff Author, Verywell Health, 4 May 2023
  • Note: Don't download the beta versions listed on this page.
    Wired, 12 July 2022
  • At one point, Beeper was running the beta version of its app on more than 700 Mac mini servers.
    Lauren Goode, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2023
  • People who donate $10 or more are able to participate in the beta version of the app, which is set to launch soon.
    Chanel Stitt, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2021
  • People who applied when the beta version went live do not need to reapply.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Five months later, a beta version reached the US, ahead of a global release in July 2021.
    PCMAG, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Even though these are beta versions, getting in early to market is a good idea.
    Jonathan Kay, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • But what if your brain already has signs of beta amyloid or tau — two of the hallmark signs of Alzheimer’s and other brain pathologies?
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Google says that the multisearch feature is now available as a beta feature in English in the US.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 7 Apr. 2022
  • YouTube first launched a beta version of its audio ads in 2020 to cater to users who listen to podcasts and music on the video platform.
    J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The beta launch of the site received over eight million applications, according to the White House.
    WSJ, 22 Oct. 2022
  • But the concept didn’t start to take off until Amazon Web Services launched a beta version of a public cloud in 2002.
    Heather Landy, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The Setting is certainly here—and now tests are ramping up in beta versions.
    Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Nothing also has a beta OS release that runs atop Android 14, which works on Phone 1.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Homey Pro is also already Thread-ready and has beta support for Matter, too.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Rolling out in beta form next month, GrammarlyGO will do more than just point out your grammar mistakes.
    Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In the recent quarter, the company received more than 8,000 sign-ups for the cloud uploads of beta version of Ziva Faces.
    Beth Kindig, Forbes, 20 May 2022
  • In Seattle, Starbucks tested a beta version of such a program last year.
    Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Ryse is a mix of Thinkamine and beta alanine that gives the user long-term energy, mental alertness, strength, and endurance.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Guernseys are known for having a golden hue to their milk, which is actually beta carotene that gives it that color.
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2023
  • For now, the company is collecting signups in order to raise the curtain soon to allow beta users to begin test-driving the app.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 July 2023

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