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On the other hand, if your children or grandchildren have relatively little taxable income, they may be in a low or even zero tax bracket for capital gains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Whether that be by writing and debugging software, coordinating family’s schedules or picking a March Madness bracket, the bet is that autonomous AI will soon handle many of our everyday tasks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Nobody will know until 2028 and answers will depend on the package, your tax bracket and your level of fandom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Yes, it makes sense to start taking them now if you can stay within that tax bracket and maximize them when you retire and before you claim Social Security so your income is low.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
One such place is the Fertile Crescent, where the mountains of western Iran and the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth, bracket the Tigris and Euphrates river systems.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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One thing all the income brackets have in common: “Everyone’s looking for value,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Save the Children said the new uniform rules are a "good start" but back-to-school costs remain a concern for families across almost all income brackets.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
More people would rise into higher brackets and pay more in tax as their incomes grow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
“Once an account holder reaches age 18, many young adults will also be in one of the lowest tax brackets they’ll ever experience,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
These coordinations are graceful only when the phrases coming after each marker—the ones enclosed in brackets above—are parallel.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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
“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
The contiguous video display was installed recently, but the display that Madden used was a cinema-sized screen in the middle bracketed by four large flat screens on each side.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024
McCandless starred and bracketed the paragraph and circled “refuge in nature” in black ink.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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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
The Ford is one of two U.S. carrier strike groups bracketing the conflict.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
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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