All articles starting with B

Becky Lynch

Becky Lynch (Rebecca Quin, born 1987, Dublin) is an Irish WWE wrestler, "The Man," 2019 Royal Rumble winner, first woman to main event WrestleMania, and a record three-time Women's Intercontinental Champion.

Sep 27, 2026

Becky Massey

Becky Massey is a Republican member of the Tennessee Senate from the 6th district, covering parts of Knoxville, elected in 2011 and chairing the Senate Transportation and Safety Committee.

Becky Sauerbrunn

Becky Sauerbrunn (Rebecca Elizabeth Sauerbrunn), born 1985, St. Louis, is a retired American center back, USWNT captain, two-time World Cup champion (2015, 2019), 2012 Olympic gold medalist, four-time NWSL Defender of the Year, with 219 caps.

Becky Smith

Becky Smith (Rebecca Gwendolyn Smith-Wiber), born 1959 in Vancouver, Canadian swimmer; won bronze in the 400 m individual medley and 4x100 m freestyle relay at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, plus Commonwealth and world championship medals.

Sep 27, 2026

Becky Stille

Becky Stille is an American politician and Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Nebraska's 3rd district in 2026, a quality manager at Ag Processing Inc. running against incumbent Rep. Adrian Smith.

Becky Sundstrom

Becky Sundstrom (Rebecca Lynn Sundstrom-Thometz), born 1976 in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, is an American long-track speed skater who competed at the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics, won the 1995 World Junior All-Around title, and set a 1998 mini-combination world record.

Oct 20, 2026

Beclabuvir

Beclabuvir (BMS-791325), a non-nucleoside allosteric inhibitor of HCV NS5B polymerase (Thumb 1 site), developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb; approved in Japan as Ximency with daclatasvir and asunaprevir for genotype 1 hepatitis C.

Beclobrate

Beclobrate (CAS 55937-99-0), a clofibrate-analog fibric acid derivative antihyperlipidemic introduced in 1985; lowered LDL-C and triglycerides at 100 mg once daily; withdrawn in Switzerland in 1990 after fatal hepatitis reports.

Oct 15, 2026

Beclomethasone

Beclomethasone, also spelled beclometasone, is a synthetic anti-inflammatory corticosteroid used in inhalers for asthma and COPD, nasal sprays, skin creams, and tablets for ulcerative colitis.

Oct 15, 2026

Beclomethasone dipropionate

Beclomethasone dipropionate is a topically active corticosteroid used by inhaler and nasal spray for asthma and rhinitis, and the first inhaled asthma controller medication, introduced in 1972.

BECN1

BECN1 (beclin 1, ATG6, VPS30), human gene at 17q21.31 near BRCA1; encodes Beclin 1, core class III PI3K subunit regulating autophagy; discovered by Beth Levine's lab; tumor suppressor status revised by TCGA.

Becoming (book)

Becoming (2018) is Michelle Obama's memoir, also known as Becoming: Mein Weg. It covers her Chicago childhood, Princeton and career, and White House years; it sold 15+ million copies and won a 2019 NAACP Image Award.

Becoming Chinese

Becoming Chinese (also #BecomingChinese, Chinamaxxing) is a 2025-2026 TikTok trend of Western, mostly Gen Z users adopting Chinese lifestyle habits like warm water, indoor slippers, and baduanjin qigong, started by creator Sherry Zhu.

Becoming Elizabeth

Becoming Elizabeth is a 2022 Starz historical drama created by Anya Reiss about Elizabeth I's teenage years after Henry VIII's death, starring Alicia von Rittberg and Tom Cullen; eight episodes, one season, canceled despite a Metacritic score of 73.

Becoming Human

Becoming Human is a 2011 British webisode spin-off of Being Human, created by Toby Whithouse: teenage vampire Adam (Craig Roberts), werewolf Christa and ghost Matt solve a murder in eight online episodes, later compiled into a BBC Three special.

Becoming Human (film)

Becoming Human (Chiet Chea Manusa, ជាតិជាមនុស្សា) is Polen Ly's 2025 Cambodian drama debut: a cinema's guardian ghost, Thida, weighs rebirth against remaining a ghost after meeting journalist Hai. Premiered at Venice 2025; Cambodia's 99th Academy Awards submission.

Becoming Jane

Becoming Jane is a 2007 biographical romantic drama directed by Julian Jarrold, starring Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen and James McAvoy as Tom Lefroy, loosely based on Jon Spence's biography Becoming Jane Austen.

Becoming Karl Lagerfeld

Becoming Karl Lagerfeld (Kaiser Karl) is a 2024 French Disney+ six-episode biographical drama starring Daniel Brühl as Karl Lagerfeld in 1972, covering his rivalry with Yves Saint Laurent and love for Jacques de Bascher, adapted from Raphaëlle Bacqué's biography.

Sep 19, 2026

Becoming the Archetype

Becoming the Archetype is an American Christian progressive and melodic death metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, whose six albums on Solid State Records span 2005 to 2022.

Becoming white thesis

Becoming white thesis: the whiteness-studies claim that Irish, Italian, and Jewish immigrants became white in America, advanced by Roediger, Ignatiev, and Brodkin and contested by Yang and Koshy's finding of no legal reclassification.

Becotatug vedotin

Becotatug vedotin (MRG003, MEIYOUHENG) is an EGFR-targeted antibody-drug conjugate of JMT101 plus MMAE, approved in China in 2025 for recurrent/metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma, with phase IIa ORR 42%.

Becquerel

The becquerel (Bq) is the SI unit of radioactivity, defined as one nuclear transformation per second, named for Henri Becquerel, discoverer of radioactivity, and adopted by the CGPM in 1975.

Oct 10, 2026

Becton Dickinson

Becton Dickinson, formally Becton, Dickinson and Company and commonly called BD, is an American medical technology company founded in 1897, selling syringes, needles, and diagnostic equipment worldwide.

Bed

A bed is a piece of furniture for sleeping or resting, consisting of a frame or base that holds a mattress at a comfortable height off the floor.

Bed and Board

Bed and Board (Domicile conjugal), 1970 French comedy-drama by François Truffaut, fourth Antoine Doinel film: married Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) has a child with Christine (Claude Jade) then an affair with Kyoko.

Bed and breakfast

Bed and breakfast (B&B): small, typically owner-occupied lodging offering overnight accommodation plus breakfast, with 2–10 guest rooms. Differs from guesthouses and hotels by domestic scale and host residence; definitions, grading, and regulation vary by jurisdiction.

Bed and Sofa (Третья Мещанская)

Bed and Sofa (Третья Мещанская, also Liubov vtroem) is Abram Room's 1927 Sovkino silent melodrama, written with Viktor Shklovsky, about a Moscow wife, husband, and lodger sharing one room; banned at home, a hit abroad, rediscovered in the 1970s.

Bed Bath & Beyond

Bed Bath & Beyond was an American specialty retailer of bed linens, bath goods, and housewares, founded in 1971, which liquidated in Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2023.

Bed bug

Bed bug (Cimex lectularius, tropical bed bug Cimex hemipterus): blood-feeding, wingless household pest, 4-5 mm, five nymphal instars, traumatic insemination, not known to transmit disease, resurgent worldwide since the late 1990s amid pyrethroid resistance.