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bracket

[brak-it] / ˈbræk ɪt /


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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

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

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

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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