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bracket

[brak-it] / ˈbræk ɪt /


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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

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

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

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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