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mark

[mahrk] / mɑrk /


NOUN
criterion, standard
Synonyms


NOUN
goal, target
Synonyms






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"These microbes remind us that even the smallest partners can leave the deepest mark on our history."

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

Navarrete posed for a photo with a client who held an oversized green card to mark his acquisition of the real thing.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

Love them, hate them or barely know them, it's a colleague's birthday, wedding or leaving do and there's a collection to mark the occasion.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Japan's 10-year bond yield is at a 30-year high, 30-year US Treasuries are just short of their 2007 mark and the US 10-year yield is also at financial crisis levels.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

Mama said there'd been many Conjurors throughout the years that did hide from Marvellians and Fewels alike, used makeup to cover their conjure mark and pass into Marvellian society.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

The restructuring marks the biggest in VW's almost nine-decade history.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

The approval of the plans by Volkswagen's supervisory board, made up of both labour and shareholder representatives, marks progress in delicate negotiations between the two sides.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

This marks a further elaboration from the Canadian leader on why negotiations suddenly broke down after officials just days earlier were optimistic that a deal was imminent.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

Yearning to be loved in the Lakers’ Los Angeles, the Clippers were easy marks during that 2019 free agency.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

Once she realized the funny marks stood for sounds, she progressed rapidly.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

It is understood the funeral of Jakub Matusiak, 23, one of five young men killed in the head-on collision with a marked police car on the A66, is due to take place in Middlesbrough.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

It marked the end of impregnable America and began an age of vulnerability.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

The last week has been marked by escalating exchanges of fire between the two sides.

From Salon Sep. 3, 2026

Although it was Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs who formally introduced the resolution, Wednesday marked the first time in 30 years that a House speaker has led the charge on proposing a constitutional amendment.

From Slate Sep. 3, 2026

He hid it inside the hollow nickel he’d made, put the coin in one of his dead-drop locations, and marked the subway station wall with chalk.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Among them is a headstone marking where a 12-year-old was laid to rest.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

A bill, known as AB 2319 and aimed at supporting the industry’s editors, sound mixers, composers and visual effects artists, passed the Senate on Sunday, marking the state’s first-ever stand-alone postproduction tax incentive.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

Diraq is deploying a quantum computer directly into a commercial data center, marking a real-world example of hybrid computing.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

Scottie Scheffler won the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club, marking his second victory in three weeks since the PGA Tour playoffs began.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

With the French army marking time, British general Haig was convinced that the outcome of the war depended on the armies under his command.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman




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