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For tax year 2027, a married couple filing jointly could have $104,050 in taxable income, $3,250 more than this year, and stay in the 12% bracket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The threshold for reaching the top federal income-tax bracket in 2027 will climb by nearly $25,000 for a married couple.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The College Football Playoff rankings will be released every Tuesday until the final rankings and 12-team playoff bracket are revealed on Sunday, Dec. 6, at 9 a.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Opening the Everyman Theatre's new education and community centre in his hometown, O'Connor said: "To be considered in that same sort of bracket is extraordinary".
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
His head slammed into a bracket as he cleared and he reached up to grab it and was free, in the air, hanging up in die tail.
From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
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Like income-tax brackets, these ranges adjust with inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Inflation adjustments to tax brackets, the standard deduction, the child tax credit and more are meant to give taxpayers relief from rising costs of living.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Most people will look at the new tax brackets for 2027 that the IRS announced on Thursday and think about how much tax they will have to pay.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
In fact, the City Section was only following rules adopted by its football coaches directing that teams be placed in brackets by strictly following where they are rated in computer rankings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
I vowed to complete the brackets today, so I can return the panels to the farm.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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His grandfather is Rennie Stennett, a versatile player whose nine seasons with the Pirates were bracketed by World Series titles in his 1971 rookie season and 1979 finale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 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
It is possible that countries could be very broadly bracketed into different levels of a basically universal tariff.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2025
Staring up at shutters, gutter lines, looking for cables bracketed to bricks, anything that might give the transmitter away.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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
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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