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benchmark

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


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They currently charge the government 5.3% annual interest, a generational high, on benchmark 10-year bonds.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Saudi Aramco lowered the official selling price for November shipments of its Arab Light crude to Asia by $3 a barrel to a discount of $5 a barrel to the Oman/Dubai benchmark.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The proposal defines a meaningful benchmark as “an investment, strategy, index, or other comparator that has similar mandates, strategies, objectives, and risks.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Twilio and Vylor are joining the benchmark index.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 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

On advanced reasoning benchmarks, Beam can achieve comparable scores to GLM-5.2 with three to four times less processing computing, according to Reflection.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Beam is said to surpass other American open-weight models such as Thinking Machine’s Inkling and Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 Ultra across different agentic coding and reasoning benchmarks.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Extensive areas of unharvested forest were kept as benchmarks for comparison.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Brent meanwhile stays supported by concerns over international supply disruptions, widening the spread between the two benchmarks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

When it’s a criminal case, the plan contains measurable benchmarks.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater




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