bracket
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But the slate of games Sunday sorted out the rest of the postseason bracket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
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
Lord Roke bowed and snapped his fingers, and the small blue hawk perching on the bracket beside the door spread her wings and glided to the table.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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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
In the following discussion, taxable-equivalent yields are calculated using 2026 federal tax brackets, which have been compiled by NerdWallet, based on the Internal Revenue Service’s revision to the tax bracket ranges published last October.
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
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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Despite the England star again coming to his nation's aid with two goals that overcame Norway in the Miami furnace, Bellingham has a long way to go to be bracketed with those iconic figures.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
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
He paused alongside the wall, the rust-colored soil at his feet spreading for miles around, his view bracketed by the San Jose Mountains to the south and a majestic limestone bluff to the north.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2025
McCandless starred and bracketed the paragraph and circled “refuge in nature” in black ink.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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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 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
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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