leaderboard

British

/ ˈliːdəˌbɔːd /

noun

a board displaying the names and current scores of the leading competitors, esp in a golf tournament

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A leaderboard of the biggest trading losses of all time.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

DeepSeek -- whose V4 Flash tops the usage leaderboard of technical platform OpenRouter -- said last week it plans a "significant increase" in prices for programmers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

Jaden Soong, a rising junior golfer at St. Francis High, charged from behind on the leaderboard to win the prestigious Junior PGA Championships in Frisco, Texas, on Friday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

And he didn’t card a single bogey in the final two rounds, which kept him safe while Scheffler shot up the leaderboard with a final round 63.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Kyle got a couple of answers right on his own, but he took longer to respond than everybody else, so his name never appeared on the leaderboard again.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

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