Synonyms of baselines

baselines

noun

plural of baseline

as in beginnings

the point at which something begins

any year or event we use as the baseline for the Renaissance is going to be at least somewhat arbitrary

Synonyms & Similar Words

• beginnings
• inceptions
• alphas
• starts
• onsets
• commencements
• thresholds
• launches
• geneses
• kickoffs
• outsets
• day ones
• births
• dawns
• infancies
• nascencies
• incipiencies
• originations
• incipiences
• mornings
• origins
• nascences
• inaugurations
• first bases
• ground zeros
• get-goes
• initiations
• drawing boards
• institutions
• square ones
• wells
• sources
• fountains
• arrivals
• springs
• emergences
• germs
• childhoods
• creations
• cradles
• wellsprings
• roots
• openings
• seedbeds
• debuts
• fountainheads
• advents
• youths
• appearances

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• conclusions
• ends
• periods
• endings
• closes
• terminations
• stops
• completions
• finishes
• closures
• closings
• omegas
• cessations
• windups
• finales

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of baselines

Every time, the marketers who moved early, built creative fluency and established measurement baselines before the channel got crowded were the ones who could still make the economics work when costs normalized. — Phoena Pang, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026

The report cited recent Stanford research showing that frontier models have saturated standard coding benchmarks and reached or even surpassed human baselines on complex scientific, mathematical and reasoning tasks. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2026

Something called an Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District would be created that freezes property tax baselines on the properties and uses future tax growth to fund infrastructure. — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026

In a declaration supporting their complaint, Becker noted that California is mulling a bill, SB 813, that would establish a process where independent organizations would set baselines for AI safety standards. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026

For one thing, the pitcher and catcher are on the same team as the batter, and the only bases are along the first and third baselines which, if reached, constitute a run. — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026

Forests and other land-use projects are excluded for now while the country develops stronger baselines and data to manage reversal risks. — ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026

The Jordan and James camps will continue to pound away at each other from their baselines, back and forth, making the rest of us who are undecided feel like chair umpires at a tennis match, head on a swivel. — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 30 July 2026