benchmark
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Oil prices finished lower on Friday, with U.S. and global benchmark crude contracts posting their worst weekly percentage losses in nearly six years, as talks loomed between the U.S. and Iran.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
As of Friday afternoon, futures traders were pricing in a 77% chance that the central bank will maintain its current benchmark rate by year-end.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
For weeks now, the global tech industry has been waiting for a major artificial intelligence launch from DeepSeek, seen as a benchmark for China's progress in the fast-moving field.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
Red diesel, a fuel used by farmers in off-road vehicles, machinery and heating has seen its price pushed up by the soaring cost of brent crude - the global benchmark for oil prices.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
Epic in scope, violence, and imagination, Deathstorm is a new benchmark in the fantasy genre and cements forever G. M. Pennington’s status as the American Tolkien.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
Vocabulary lists containing benchmark
Born a Crime
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This Week In Words: August 15–21, 2020
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 13
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