bracket
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Your instinct that you’ll never be in a meaningfully lower tax bracket isn’t an unreasonable one, given your good fortune.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
The other half of the bracket definitely won’t be mistaken for a chess match.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
For the last nine years, Cape Verde have hovered around the 60-80 bracket, and will go into Friday's game ranked 64th.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
At the top end, 15.3 percent have net assets worth $100,000 to $1,000,000, and in the top bracket, 1.5 percent have more than a million dollars.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
It was so blatantly the type of thing that she would do herself, and I did not want him to bracket us together.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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That outpaced growth of 1.5% or less for higher-earning brackets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
People in lower income brackets also are more likely to have a smartphone than a laptop or desktop computer, according to data from Pew Research Center.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 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
After some drilling and bolting, I got the brackets attached to it and then mounted it back on the rover.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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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
The NFL allowed that, and during that time Fox aired a Terry Bradshaw interview of McCartney bracketed by commercial breaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025
Regularly bracketed alongside Kohli, New Zealand's Kane Williamson and Steve Smith of Australia in the 'Fab Four' of Test batting, Root has enjoyed the best form of his career since the beginning of 2022.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2024
The woman scans my transcript—mostly C's bracketed by a couple of B's and D's.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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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 Rev. Stephen Fields, a Jesuit priest and professor at Georgetown University, said that has to start with professors bracketing their political opinions more often.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
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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