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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

“We use the 37% bracket and assume a 3.8% Medicare/ACA surcharge,” Close said, when discussing taxable equivalent yields.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Inside the door, a small blue hawk was perching on a bracket.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

And now we have the taxable-equivalent yields, based on the bonds’ yields to worst and five federal tax brackets:

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

The issue is that after one spouse’s death, the survivor must switch to “single” filing status, and that can push the survivor into higher tax brackets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

There were so many pipes, valves, levers, knobs, brackets, dials, and handles—and I didn’t have any idea what most of them did.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

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

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

Here were two artists, one black and one Puerto Rican, standing beneath a 115-year-old chandelier, bracketed by towering antique portraits of George and Martha Washington, singing about feeling “at home in this nation we’ve made.”

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

Both resolutions “are currently passing by wide margins,” he tweeted on last week, adding, “Thanks for your support!!” and bracketing that line with a quartet of valentine-red hearts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

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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