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- noun The letter
A in theICAO spelling alphabet .
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Some even raised the issue of the complicity of a culture that fails to hold people in positions of power accountable for abusing that power -- what I call the "Alpha Dog Syndrome," when the rest of the pack remains silent while the Alpha does anything he wants, even if demeaning, exploitative, or abusive -- out of fear of reprisal, rejection, or banishment from the group.
Pamela Gerloff: If This Were A Dream, What Would It Mean? Pamela Gerloff 2011
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The police department -- the Miami Police Department, is on what they call the Alpha-Bravo shift, dividing the department in half, meaning that of the 800 officers who are available to go out in street, 400 of them are here now.
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I often find "Alpha" is short for "A$$hole," but Dante's intelligence, protectiveness and humor helped balance his domineering tendencies.
Ciaralira 2009
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Well, Wolfram | Alpha is in a sense taking existing knowledge, and encoding it in computable form, and computing answers from it.
Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge 2009
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For one of the crucial features of Wolfram | Alpha is its ability to take free-form linguistic input, and to map it onto its precise symbolic representations of computations.
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Although the music store is scheduled to land in Alpha 3 most signs point to it being kept underwraps for a few more days.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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All the latest bug fixes, security updates, application revisions and kernel updates are present in Alpha 3.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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Alpha is also still running wild and oh yeah all the other dollhouses and copies of the Rossum founders too.
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Alpha is also still running wild and oh yeah all the other dollhouses and copies of the Rossum founders too.
Dollhouse – Rossum/Boyd is Dead – one episode to go « Show Me SciFi 2010
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Alpha is totally isolated, the only one of his kind, and appears to have spent so much time alone and above that he is detached completely from the “regular folk”, although not in a Dr. Manhattan “who cares?” sort of way.
Quick Hits – Irredeemable, The Mighty, Justice League, The Destroyer, and More 2009
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