How to Use benchmark in a Sentence

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  • Brent crude is the world’s oil price benchmark and is produced in the North Sea.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Read more about the shakeup coming to oil benchmarks here.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 31 May 2023
  • What kinds of benchmarks are available, and what kinds would be useful to have?
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
  • That has pushed up the 10-year Treasury yield, a key benchmark for mortgage rates.
    — Anna Bahney, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • But in recent times, Russia has found ways around the price cap, and has charged well above the $60 benchmark as oil prices have risen.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The Hang Seng Index, the benchmark that tracks the largest companies on the city’s stock exchange, has dropped for four straight years.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The next benchmark is 1,997 copies, in order to commemorate the year Cameron’s film came out.
    — William Earl, Variety, 7 June 2023
  • That means the studio’s films have a higher benchmark than its rivals to break even at the box office.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 5 July 2023
  • Front-month Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, rose more than 5%, its biggest one-day gain since April.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
  • In his message, Faulk said the lab had accepted the benchmark proposed by Philips.
    — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Four minutes per hour seems to be a benchmark for the lowest amount of ad time on a streaming platform.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The remainder will go to the cast of streaming shows that reach a certain benchmark of success.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The app measures an athlete’s progress and other benchmarks of health.
    — Wally Skalij, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • In its final week, the show set a box office benchmark at the James Earl Jones Theatre with $1.463 million.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Trading at about $79 a barrel, benchmark Brent crude was on track to snap a three-day losing streak.
    — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Brent crude, the world’s oil benchmark, jumped as much as 1.8% to $89 per barrel, the highest since September.
    — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The Fed's short-term benchmark rate went up Wednesday by a quarter of a percentage point.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 3 May 2023
  • Brent crude, the world benchmark, dropped by more than 4%, slipping below $74 a barrel.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 30 May 2023
  • Global benchmark Brent surged as much as 2.7% to top $92 a barrel, a level last reached during the early days of the war.
    — Julia Fanzeres, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The Fed uses the core PCE index as the benchmark for its 2% inflation target.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 28 July 2023
  • The government will hand out funding as those benchmarks are met.
    — Don Clark, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024
  • This means more than half of students did not meet grade-level benchmarks when they were tested in spring 2023.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The benchmark added as much as 4.8% Friday, with KBW’s index of regional lenders up 5.1%.
    — Kit Rees, Fortune, 5 May 2023
  • If no candidate pulled ahead of that benchmark, the runner-up could request a runoff election be held in May.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The biggest benchmark is coming up on April 1, which marks the end of the wet season when snowpack typically hits its peak in the peaks.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The Fed hasn’t raised its benchmark rate since July, and many economists believe its rate-hike campaign is over.
    — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2023
  • In the wild, they’ve been observed using tools—a benchmark of higher cognition.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The consumer price index, the benchmark Oregon uses to determine how much the minimum wage will rise, was 5.0% over the past year.
    — Mike Rogoway | Mrogoway@oregonian.com, oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Expand the sample to include all four head-to-head games between these sides and bettors will find three of four stayed under this benchmark.
    — Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Mortgages, auto loans and credit cards have boosted rates in response to the Fed's higher benchmark rate.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 2 May 2023
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  • The Fed’s benchmark short-term rate stands in a range of just 1.75% to 2%.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2019
  • That is well above the Fed’s benchmark short-term rate’s current range between 1% and 1.25%.
    — Kate Davidson, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Check out our primer on fio to learn how to install it on your system, and even more about the right way to benchmark storage.
    — Valentina Palladino and Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The idea is that researchers will use the videos to train software to spot deepfake videos in the wild, and to benchmark the performance of their tools.
    — Wired, 2 Oct. 2019
  • To keep pace with growth, a company should benchmark its ESG progress against the progress of competitors, says Mak.
    — Stella Bernstein, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • On Thursday, the country’s equities benchmark logged its third drop of at least 2.4% since the middle of last week.
    — Ese Erheriene, WSJ, 3 May 2018
  • President Biden's goal puts that benchmark out in April.
    — CBS News, 24 Jan. 2021
  • Russia's main Urals crude is priced in relation to benchmark Brent.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 9 May 2022
  • Due to the timing of the deal and its longer maturities, the new bonds came with higher coupons than the first one relative to benchmark swap rates, investors said.
    — Sam Goldfarb, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2018
  • Investor relief at the cease-fire sent shares of the company up more than 4% on the day, which benchmark stock indexes also jumped.
    — Rachel Layne, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2019
  • This year, organizers will use the event to benchmark the beginning of the 75th anniversary of Saint Joseph Parish.
    — Jshortavon, cleveland, 17 July 2023
  • Those third parties can also bring a bit of a benchmarking perspective on things.
    — Mengqi Sun, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Even thousands of years after the fact, feces could benchmark this transition.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2020
  • That’s because many, many more stock funds either directly mimic the S&P 500 or benchmark themselves against that index than the Dow.
    — Stan Choe, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2020
  • How was your performance when benchmarked against other reps?
    — Dear Sam, OregonLive.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Facebook is among a group of tech giants involved in benchmarking the latest AI chips, Aaron Tilley reports.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2018
  • If the refining price had largely held steady, gas would still be expensive, but that benchmark $5-a-gallon figure would not have been breached — at least not yet.
    — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 19 June 2022
  • Suppose a CEO gets benchmarked at the 75th percentile, which ends up earning him an annual pay package of $30 million.
    — Steven Clifford, The Atlantic, 14 June 2017
  • Every company needs to benchmark itself against best-in-class because that’s what your customers expect of you.
    — Maribel Lopez, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • In response to the problem, EmTrain developed a global dataset to help clients benchmark workplace culture shifts.
    — Denise Brodey, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • So finding a way to benchmark these behemoths was important.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 June 2023
  • In Asia, Japan’s benchmark ended almost 4% higher even as that country moved closer to declaring a state of emergency.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Prizes also provide a way for countries to benchmark themselves against their competitors.
    — Marja Makarow, STAT, 18 June 2020
  • The campaign views Twitter as a channel for messaging and a way to benchmark its advertising efforts.
    — Mario Parker / Bloomberg, Time, 31 Oct. 2019
  • In many segments, automakers benchmark the same set of vehicles, so there's barely an inch of variation among them.
    — Annie White, Car and Driver, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Today there is no way to hold the country’s 6,000 hospitals accountable and benchmark their performance.
    — Karen Pennar, STAT, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Active managers whose performance is benchmarked against the index will also have to pay more attention to Chinese shares.
    — Bloomberg.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • China’s main market index fell 2.5 percent and Japan’s benchmark lost 1.5 percent.
    — Joe McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2018
  • Companies often then buy data sets listing salaries at rivals or in an industry as a whole in an attempt to benchmark pay to others.
    — Chip Cutter, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Data from non-human primates will enable the group to benchmark its construct against existing vaccines.
    — Cormac Sheridan, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2021

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