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
As he was speaking, he put the lamp on a bracket on the wall, and stepping out, took my luggage; he had carried it in before I could forestall him.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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He provided two examples of municipal bonds rated AAA by S&P, Moody’s and Fitch Ratings, and here we will show the taxable-equivalent yields for five federal income-tax brackets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
Now Dr. Maris was attaching wires to the brackets, and suddenly, Ernie, the boy with the perfect smile, had braces.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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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
“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
The contiguous video display was installed recently, but the display that Madden used was a cinema-sized screen in the middle bracketed by four large flat screens on each side.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024
A bracketed sign swings and creaks on the night wind.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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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
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
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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