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something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared
this prize-winning biography will be the benchmark against which all others will be judged in future years
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Recent Examples of benchmarks
OpenAI also says there is a 45 percent to 65 percent reduction in factual errors over GPT-4, depending on the setting, as well as substantial gains in handling medical and coding tasks on industry-standard benchmarks.
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Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Carbonfact, an environmental data platform for the apparel and footwear industry, just shared the first free solution that lets brands calculate their official French Environmental Cost—and compare it, instantly, to industry benchmarks.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
In the past, LLMs were trained on a massive corpora of public text, measured by objective benchmarks.
—Avital Pardo, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The bank’s changes come after stocks notched a solid performance in August , which is a historically weak month for the major benchmarks.
—Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
The research — conducted by the RAND Corporation and funded by the National Institute of Mental Health — raises concerns about how a growing number of people, including children, rely on AI chatbots for mental health support, and seeks to set benchmarks for how companies answer these questions.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
Although both Chrome and Edge use the same underlying web page rendering code, Google adds some secret sauce to the Chromium open-source code to deliver faster performance, at least based on standard benchmarks like JetStream, Speedometer, and WebXPRT.
—PC Magazine, 24 Aug. 2025
Regularly research salary benchmarks for your industry and experience level.
—Andrew Fennell, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
His expertise, innovation, and forward-thinking approach inspire engineers and organizations to set new industry benchmarks.
—William Jones, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2025
Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Carbonfact, an environmental data platform for the apparel and footwear industry, just shared the first free solution that lets brands calculate their official French Environmental Cost—and compare it, instantly, to industry benchmarks.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
In the past, LLMs were trained on a massive corpora of public text, measured by objective benchmarks.
—Avital Pardo, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The bank’s changes come after stocks notched a solid performance in August , which is a historically weak month for the major benchmarks.
—Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
The research — conducted by the RAND Corporation and funded by the National Institute of Mental Health — raises concerns about how a growing number of people, including children, rely on AI chatbots for mental health support, and seeks to set benchmarks for how companies answer these questions.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
Although both Chrome and Edge use the same underlying web page rendering code, Google adds some secret sauce to the Chromium open-source code to deliver faster performance, at least based on standard benchmarks like JetStream, Speedometer, and WebXPRT.
—PC Magazine, 24 Aug. 2025
Regularly research salary benchmarks for your industry and experience level.
—Andrew Fennell, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
His expertise, innovation, and forward-thinking approach inspire engineers and organizations to set new industry benchmarks.
—William Jones, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for benchmarks
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The advent of short-form cricket has seen fielding standards rise rapidly in the past decade.—
James Wallace,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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The standards for staffing levels are based on federal regulations from the Office of Personnel Management.—
Natalie Eilbert,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Produced by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), the index ranks 163 independent states and territories according to criteria including societal safety and security; the extent of ongoing domestic and international conflict; and the degree of militarization.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
30 Aug. 2025
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That means investing in digital systems that can integrate new tools quickly and securely, establishing consistent and transparent evaluation criteria, and ensuring that procurement teams and clinicians have the time and capacity to engage with innovative suppliers.—
Kath Mackay,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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This requires measurement frameworks that can capture complex, interconnected outcomes rather than isolated metrics.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Meeting the nearly century-old metrics has become harder as snowpacks shrink in the mountains that feed the Rio Grande.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Benchmarks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/benchmarks. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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