benchmark
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The controversies and poor punctuality led to Qantas plummeting in the industry benchmark Skytrax Awards to rank the world's 24th-best airline in 2024, its worst-ever ranking and down from 5th just two years prior.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026
Those gains helped the S&P 500’s equal-weighted version, which gives each stock the same influence instead of weighting companies by market value, outperform the benchmark index by the widest weekly margin since 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
Trading on South Korea's Kospi was temporarily halted as an 8% fall in the benchmark index triggered a mechanism intended to curb panic selling.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026
Alphabet is finally joining the Dow, but you still shouldn’t use the blue-chip index as a market benchmark.
From Barron's • Jun. 24, 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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