bracket
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The commercial waterman won in the small boat division of the singles bracket with a time of 23 seconds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Nobody will know until 2028 and answers will depend on the package, your tax bracket and your level of fandom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
The combination of pretax savings at a higher tax bracket and a tax bill at a lower tax bracket sets up what Chancey called “a discount Roth conversion.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Done backwards, you’ve paid tax on an RMD you meant to give away and burned bracket space you needed.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
“What is the usual income bracket of the mobiles?”
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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Tax brackets, Social Security payments and retirement-account contribution limits are all pegged off of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
But they skip over that the brackets wouldn’t be adjusted annually for inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
People in lower income brackets also are more likely to have a smartphone than a laptop or desktop computer, according to data from Pew Research Center.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
This law made permanent the tax rates and tax brackets originally enacted in 2017.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
I try not to flinch as she presses the brackets against them.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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The company’s guidance on adjusted earnings per share, which calls for $1.02 to $1.04, bracketed the consensus view.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 11, 2026
While adverts have long bracketed sporting action on commercial television in the United Kingdom, it was the first time they had made a mid-match incursion into the viewing experience.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
I’m less excited about the front end, bracketed by large and kind of goofy LED arrays at the edges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Hers — a couple of capital Ms, bracketed by a heart — seems perfectly fine, and I tell her to keep it for now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024
The woman scans my transcript—mostly C's bracketed by a couple of B's and D's.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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For the current quarter, Oracle guided for revenue growth between 19% to 21%, bracketing the 20% growth expectations implied by the FactSet consensus.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 10, 2026
It sees same-store sales up between 1% and 3%, bracketing the 2% growth it logged in the just-completed fiscal year.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
He describes how he uses a technique called focus bracketing, where dozens of photos are taken.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
There is, perhaps, at the heart of every composition, the door to a great mystery you might not even have realized you were bracketing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
Alby stopped walking, and Thomas was surprised to see they’d reached the South Door; the two walls bracketing the exit towered above them.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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