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bracket

[brak-it] / ˈbræk ɪt /


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The other half of the bracket definitely won’t be mistaken for a chess match.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

With Cinderella runs, a sprawling bracket, and survive-and-advance drama nearly every day, it’s clear that what we’ve really experienced is a summer version of March Madness.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

As your account balance declines, you may eventually find yourself in a lower tax bracket.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

“Individuals are moving from the lowest wealth bracket to the next one higher up, year after year, with very few exceptions,” UBS said.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

I pound at the bracket with the heel of my hand, throwing the full force of my weight behind it, but my hand slips and slices into the sharp edge.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

Yet the significance of this meeting lies deeper than tournament brackets.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

“We made things so the progressivity of the tax code is a lot higher than the tax brackets would imply,” Reichstein says.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

That measure cements the top three income brackets on taxpayers making more than $360,000, with a top rate of 13.3% on millionaires—and all of its revenue would have to go to education.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

College students and young adults in entry-level jobs may fall into the 10% or 12% federal brackets.

From MarketWatch Jun. 9, 2026

The blasts have stripped many shop signs off their brackets, and the gibbets hang forsaken.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

“Language as Liberation” comprises the rough, incomplete outlines for Morrison’s lectures, with bracketed page citations for the novels under discussion.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 10, 2026

It is possible that countries could be very broadly bracketed into different levels of a basically universal tariff.

From BBC Apr. 1, 2025

He paused alongside the wall, the rust-colored soil at his feet spreading for miles around, his view bracketed by the San Jose Mountains to the south and a majestic limestone bluff to the north.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 2, 2025

Staring up at shutters, gutter lines, looking for cables bracketed to bricks, anything that might give the transmitter away.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

For the full year, it sees earnings between $6.70 and $7.10 a share, easily above the $6.67 consensus, on revenue of $20.5 billion to $20.7 billion, bracketing the average analyst estimate.

From Barron's May 28, 2026

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

He describes how he uses a technique called focus bracketing, where dozens of photos are taken.

From BBC Dec. 29, 2025

The Ford is one of two U.S. carrier strike groups bracketing the conflict.

From Washington Times Dec. 20, 2023

Of all the Communist leaders deposed in the years bracketing the collapse of the Soviet Union, only Nicolae Ceaujescu met a violent death.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt




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