bracket
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There’s more at stake than just a higher tax bracket.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Their itemized deductions in the funding year is significantly higher than the standard deduction, so much so that it pushes out of the 22% bracket and into the 12%.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Suppose a household made enough money to be in the 24% tax bracket and contributed $2,500 in pretax money.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
If you’re still in the 24% bracket in 10 years, but your kids are steadily in the 32% or higher brackets, then it might make sense to convert over several years.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
I place my scythe into the bracket set into the wall specifically for it.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
Tax brackets, Social Security payments and retirement-account contribution limits are all pegged off of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
“We converted about $180,000 from his traditional IRA, filling the 12% and 22% brackets at a fraction of his normal tax rate,” Casey said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
This law made permanent the tax rates and tax brackets originally enacted in 2017.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Yet the significance of this meeting lies deeper than tournament brackets.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
It was something to do with the question of whether commas should be placed inside brackets, or outside.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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
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
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
It also upped its top-line expectations, to between $7.14 billion and 7.20 billion, bracketing consensus.
From Barron's ● May 6, 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
The bracketing wayward boats were pushing Eleyne against the pier.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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