benchmark
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Brent crude futures, the international oil benchmark, rose 5.6% to $95.48 a barrel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Sandisk jumped 12% last Monday, when Nasdaq said it would be joining the benchmark tech index.
From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026
Investors got even more worried after Anthropic’s Mythos AI model, which was released earlier this month, achieved a perfect score on the company’s own cybersecurity benchmark.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026
The benchmark Dutch TTF front-month contract is up 4.7% to $40.60 euros a megawatt hour, after tumbling on Friday on news that passage through the Strait was open.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 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
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