bracket
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They also get a bigger tax break because they would otherwise be taxed in a higher bracket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
With Cinderella runs, a sprawling bracket, and survive-and-advance drama nearly every day, it’s clear that what we’ve really experienced is a summer version of March Madness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
"The scone is a British classic and so is the Welsh cake so they are both in the same bracket," said Williams.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
The wealthiest income bracket outspends the lowest by around four times overall but by around 12 times on entertainment fees and admissions, the analysts said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Its tail was a huge, fading, round bracket.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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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
In the mid-1990s, with inflation falling to multidecade lows, he told Congress the consumer-price index, used to calculate Social Security checks and tax brackets, was overstating inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 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 blasts have stripped many shop signs off their brackets, and the gibbets hang forsaken.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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
Hers — a couple of capital Ms, bracketed by a heart — seems perfectly fine, and I tell her to keep it for now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024
In a word, I was bracketed with Coopers.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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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 Ford is one of two U.S. carrier strike groups bracketing the conflict.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
Alby stopped walking, and Thomas was surprised to see they’d reached the South Door; the two walls bracketing the exit towered above them.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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