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bracket

[brak-it] / ˈbræk ɪt /


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Single individual filers do not reach the top 37% federal income-tax bracket until taxable income exceeds $640,600.

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

Most savers put nearly everything in pretax because they assume they’ll be in a lower bracket in retirement.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

The only team thought to be in this bracket, according to the last published salary cap report in 2024-25, would be Newcastle.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

We've had ball-tampering scandals – all of these things – and they all fall under the same bracket of foul play and bringing the game into disrepute.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

Once pools were over and the bracket was set, the goal was to keep winning and advancing through ever-shrinking rounds of fencers.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

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

The poll found that the wealthiest classes enjoy privileges available to fewer people in lower brackets.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

Kyle locked his feet into the hover ladder’s ski boot brackets.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

Bordighera is on the Italian Riviera, bracketed by the sea, with a beach and an exotic garden referenced by painter Claude Monet.

From BBC Jun. 22, 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

He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

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

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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