the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
either of the consonant sounds represented by this letter.
First recorded in 1905–10; from Hebrew bēth literally, “house”; see beta
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Now a mother, Beth said she looks back and thinks: "God, that was such a vulnerable position that I put myself in as a young girl."
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
As my MarketWatch colleague Beth Pinsker pointed out recently, creating these documents is complicated.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
Another hawkish Fed official who joined with Logan in dissenting in April, Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, made a similar case in a speech Tuesday morning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
The arbitrator, retired Washington State Judge Beth Andrus, recently ordered Ritter to pay $10.7 million in damages to Schmidt.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
“And has anyone ever heard of Dr. Beth A. Brown?”
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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