bracket
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Voting officially opened Sept. 22, continuing a tradition started in 2014 to select which bears are the best and most fat using a March Madness-style bracket.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
This yield would be equivalent to a pretax yield of double that amount for an investor in the highest tax bracket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Meanwhile, two far worse teams will meet on the other side of the bracket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Instead, we used those states’ brackets for married couples at the bottom of the bracket for the highest Federal bracket for joint filers: $768,701.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
I remember looking at my bracket after qualifying for the second day of competition and realizing it was one of the toughest brackets ever.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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And it isn’t a slight on Zverev’s campaign to note he feasted on thinner brackets: In an oft-repeated stat, he captured two majors despite a 2-7 record this year against Top 10 players.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Let’s begin with an example that incorporates only state and local income-tax brackets, with the most commonly cited benchmark bond.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
One thing all the income brackets have in common: “Everyone’s looking for value,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Save the Children said the new uniform rules are a "good start" but back-to-school costs remain a concern for families across almost all income brackets.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Kyle locked his feet into the hover ladder’s ski boot brackets.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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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
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
That the series is bracketed by the Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York,” a Christmastime story of love between broken people, might tell you something.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
But the two lashed boats dragged anchor, swarmed down on Fayre Eleyne, and bracketed her.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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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 clusters of asteroids move roughly in tandem with Jupiter, bracketing the planet as it moves along its orbit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
The bracketing wayward boats were pushing Eleyne against the pier.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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