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
But a word of caution: Don’t assume you should automatically convert just enough to fill the 22% bracket.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
There’s more at stake than just a higher tax bracket.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Its tail was a huge, fading, round bracket.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
It streamlined income tax brackets, lowered the top rate to 36% and created the universally deductible Individual Retirement Account.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
It doesn’t matter what those brackets are, as long as their bracket is above your bracket.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
That outpaced growth of 1.5% or less for higher-earning brackets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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
Kyle locked his feet into the hover ladder’s ski boot brackets.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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
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
It is possible that countries could be very broadly bracketed into different levels of a basically universal tariff.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2025
The NFL allowed that, and during that time Fox aired a Terry Bradshaw interview of McCartney bracketed by commercial breaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025
Lady Tanda was bracketed by her daughters, placid dull Lollys and acid-tongued Falyse.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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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