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benchmark

[bench-mahrk] / ˈbɛntʃˌmɑrk /
NOUN
reference point
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STRONGEST


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Scholarship Prep South Bay, a Wilmington charter school, touts a rare benchmark of success.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

Shares of the Thai mobile network service provider have declined around 8% since its 2Q results, underperforming the benchmark SET Index’s roughly 2% drop, the analyst notes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

And with fears growing prices will spiral even higher, the central bank is set to hike its benchmark rate for the second time this year when it meets Thursday.

From Barron's Sep. 7, 2026

The early moves took both the U.S. benchmark and the international benchmark to their highest levels since July 23.

From MarketWatch Sep. 7, 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

Across the globe, bond yields are setting new highs with 10-year benchmarks at their steepest for thirty years in Japan, fifteen years for Germany and 18 years in the U.K.

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

In “Succession,” the unfathomably rich Roy children are trying and failing to reach the benchmarks set by their father.

From Salon Aug. 30, 2026

Trucking stocks have outperformed the broader stock-market benchmarks, with the Dow Jones U.S.

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

Over the last decade, the total return on the S&P 500 has slightly topped total-market benchmarks such as the Morningstar index and the Russell 3000 by around 0.5 percentage points annually, according to FactSet data.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

But O’Malley was confident that Richard would be able to meet the benchmarks she’d set.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater




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