bracket
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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
Would a Roth conversion be as attractive in that higher tax bracket?
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
The same principle - that rising income can push you into a new tax bracket - applies to the additional, 45%, rate that is charged on a person's income over £125,140.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Such a bracket might make the winter more eventful, but it would also have made a Saturday like this one almost meaningless.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 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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In fact, most households are subject to several brackets where the rates become progressively steeper.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
The biggest is planning for a surviving spouse, who could face a smaller standard deduction, narrower tax brackets and higher Medicare premiums.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
In 2023 the Pew Research Center, whose birth-year brackets fill corporate slide decks, announced it would compare generations only with data on people at similar stages of life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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
Interspersed with plundered foil bags that once contained frozen seeds, personal belonging bags hang from metal brackets like a file cabinet.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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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
“Language as Liberation” comprises the rough, incomplete outlines for Morrison’s lectures, with bracketed page citations for the novels under discussion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 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
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
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Amazon forecasted overall revenue between $240 billion and $247 billion for the fourth quarter, bracketing the $244.2 billion FactSet consensus.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
It sees same-store sales up between 1% and 3%, bracketing the 2% growth it logged in the just-completed fiscal year.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
He describes how he uses a technique called focus bracketing, where dozens of photos are taken.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
Both resolutions “are currently passing by wide margins,” he tweeted on last week, adding, “Thanks for your support!!” and bracketing that line with a quartet of valentine-red hearts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
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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