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bracket

[brak-it] / ˈbræk ɪt /


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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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

The average annual bill for households in the current highest bracket - Band H - is about £4,051, according to the government.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

If you are not careful, a conversion can make the cost of the conversion higher than the tax bracket you expect.

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 2026

One such place is the Fertile Crescent, where the mountains of western Iran and the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth, bracket the Tigris and Euphrates river systems.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

That lump-sum IRA withdrawal would be taxed as ordinary income, which would likely push the withdrawal into the highest federal tax brackets, and state tax brackets.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

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

Roth-conversion strategy has to be calibrated against the children’s expected future tax brackets, not the parents’ current ones, because the children are the ones who will ultimately empty the account.

From MarketWatch Jun. 17, 2026

The door is closed, and the lock, which is a board that lies across two brackets, is tilted and is almost out at one end.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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

For my birthday, she gifted me a T-shirt featuring a worm with a mustache bracketed by the phrase “You’re a Worm with a Mustache.”

From Los Angeles Times May 31, 2024

Low clumps of naked trees bracketed by snow-dusted fields.

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

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

Indeed, bracketing decorum under the heading of style is, to some extent, to put the cart before the horse.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith




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