bracket
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Finally, those waiting for a 16-team Division 1 bracket are wasting their time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
But it means any kind of pay rise could drag you into a higher tax bracket, or see a greater proportion of your income taxed than would otherwise be expected.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
At Eugene Henaff, one-third of meals served fall into the lowest-income bracket, with families paying 20 or 50 cents and the Ile-de-France region covering the rest, the region said, noting that no subsidies were pending.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
We had to unbuckle the icebox from the bracket to access the clean-out port.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
It was so blatantly the type of thing that she would do herself, and I did not want him to bracket us together.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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Stepping around the tiny deck was complicated by the rodholders, brackets and handlebars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Income brackets rise with inflation, but last year the top 2% of taxpayers earned at least $371,000 for single filers and $743,000 for joint filers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Ahead of the Bangkok talks, Cordano released an "aid to negotiations" -- a non-binding outline of a possible treaty, with brackets around the most contentious sections.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Your main priority now should be planning for the surviving spouse who could face fewer standard deduction, narrower tax brackets and even higher Medicare premiums.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
There were iron brackets every few yards, holding blubber lamps, and in their flaring shadows it wasn’t always easy to see where she was treading, either.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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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
That the series is bracketed by the Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York,” a Christmastime story of love between broken people, might tell you something.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
Because the Chicago data ran from 1993 to 2000, it bracketed the introduction of high-stakes testing in 1996.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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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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