How to Use benchmark in a Sentence

benchmark

1 of 2 noun

• No benchmark, no plan, no doubt.
  — Julie Averill, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
• The three benchmarks hit record highs last year.
  — Sean Conlon,fred Imbert, CNBC, 2 Jan. 2026
• An index fund must sell when a stock leaves its benchmark.
  — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
• The benchmark index set an all-time high for the fourth day in a row.
  — Damian J. Troise, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
• The small-cap benchmark hit a new high on Wednesday.
  — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 28 May 2026
• Start with the benchmark problem.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026
• Start with the benchmark problem.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 17 June 2026
• Hawaii is one of six states that meet all the institute’s benchmarks.
  — Moriah Balingit, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
• Hawaii is one of six states that meet all the institute's benchmarks.
  — ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
• The 10-year note is a key benchmark for mortgages.
  — Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 19 May 2026
• What kinds of benchmarks are available, and what kinds would be useful to have?
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• The effects were more mixed on the other benchmarks, though.
  — ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2025
• What happens when one of the world’s benchmark sport sedans goes electric?
  — Marty Padgett, The Drive, 18 Mar. 2026
• The benchmark is also trading near all-time highs.
  — Sarah Min, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
• Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 hit a record high last week.
  — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 7 May 2026
• The benchmark is no longer software but labor.
  — Olga Lykova, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• Both benchmarks have now been reached, service data shows.
  — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
• When the benchmark declines, there’s less need for reserves.
  — Ryley Amond,dan Avery, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
• Cotton benchmarks were stable over the past month.
  — Sj Guest Editorial, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
• At scale, that difference isn't a benchmark stat.
  — David Noy, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• Most cotton benchmarks decreased over the past month.
  — Sj Guest Editorial, Sourcing Journal, 14 Oct. 2025
• At the heart of the approach is a plan to use Medicare as a benchmark.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 3 Mar. 2026
• At the heart of the approach is a plan to use Medicare as a benchmark.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 4 Mar. 2026
• The move put the benchmark down 10% for 2025.
  — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
• The central bank lowered its benchmark rate by a quarter point again last month.
  — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
• The benchmark is also on pace for its fourth straight monthly advance.
  — Alex Harring, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
• Cooke says that Shakespeare has been his benchmark even when doing new plays.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2026
• His Decathlon team managers did not know where to set the benchmarks.
  — Andy McGrath, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
• Both benchmarks were headed for their third losing session in a row.
  — John Melloy,yun Li, CNBC, 19 May 2026
• So each time a new benchmark is introduced, the fastest training time gets longer.
  — Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2025

benchmark

2 of 2 verb

• Watch which benchmarks Google chooses to show on stage.
  — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• To deal with such stress, the founder has to benchmark and try to use what is already in the market.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• The chip even benchmarks a whole lot like a non-Pro A19.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
• 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
• Those third parties can also bring a bit of a benchmarking perspective on things.
  — Mengqi Sun, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2020
• The short version Go to the Apple Store and benchmark the price.
  — David Kender, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2017
• Russia's main Urals crude is priced in relation to benchmark Brent.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 9 May 2022
• Even thousands of years after the fact, feces could benchmark this transition.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 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
• Bring in an experienced team to benchmark your current practices against the standard.
  — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Most organizations have a vision statement outlining long-term outcomes, along with a multi-year plan to benchmark success over time.
  — Steve Swinney, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• Insurance firms use it to benchmark post-disaster scenes against standardized Spexigon archives.
  — Gary Weinstein, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• This year, organizers will use the event to benchmark the beginning of the 75th anniversary of Saint Joseph Parish.
  — Jshortavon, cleveland, 17 July 2023
• The project benchmarks future UK infrastructure, showing that large-scale projects can combine growth with sustainability.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
• Importantly, customers will not benchmark solopreneurs against other solo businesses.
  — Alison Coleman, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• An objective skills test can help benchmark the AI engineer against the performance expected from human counterparts.
  — Paul Eremenko, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2026
• The company benchmarks its internal reviews against an external index based on Great Place to Work’s global survey data.
  — Alice Williams, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026
• The Problem with Benchmarking Most large organizations benchmark themselves against peers.
  — Keith Ferrazzi, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
• This adaptation allows the workforce to maintain a detailed experimental record that benchmarks the quality of materials used in defense systems.
  — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Dec. 2025
• Organizations can even benchmark progress over time, allowing teams to tangibly demonstrate growth in areas like resilience and empathy – qualities that aren’t always easy to quantify.
  — Heather Wishart-Smith, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• The league’s new domestic broadcasting deal is another good sign for investors, who benchmark Premier League’s valuations to its lucrative broadcasting deals.
  — Asli Pelit, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
• Checking On Emergency Reserve Levels Many investors do not benchmark their emergency reserve levels often enough.
  — Cicely Jones, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
• The team behind First Proof, an effort to benchmark the ability of large language models (LLMs) to contribute to research-level mathematics, has announced its next exam.
  — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026
• Those limitations considered how the method’s inherently static nature challenges efforts to benchmark continuous progress tracking, given that LCAs measure impact(s) at a single point in time.
  — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 15 Aug. 2025
• Other humanoid robot companies, including Tesla, Apptronik, Figure and others will now have additional publicly-shipping models to benchmark against.
  — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
• OuSoCo is a startup developing advanced material-response models the scientists used to benchmark large-scale nuclear deflection simulations.
  — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2026
• With the release of each January employment report, BLS benchmarks payrolls to a more accurate but less timely series called the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 11 Feb. 2026