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bracket

[brak-it] / ˈbræk ɪt /


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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

At 40, he says in the special that people in his age bracket have become the “Sandwich Generation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

BBC pundit Chris Sutton: "He has to be in that bracket when you talk about the world's best. Harry Kane has instincts that are simply uncoachable."

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

As he was speaking, he put the lamp on a bracket on the wall, and stepping out, took my luggage; he had carried it in before I could forestall him.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

And now we have the taxable-equivalent yields, based on the bonds’ yields to worst and five federal tax brackets:

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

The issue is that after one spouse’s death, the survivor must switch to “single” filing status, and that can push the survivor into higher tax brackets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

I can hear the metal brackets that hold the fence to the support poles begin to snap.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

While adverts have long bracketed sporting action on commercial television in the United Kingdom, it was the first time they had made a mid-match incursion into the viewing experience.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 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

Low clumps of naked trees bracketed by snow-dusted fields.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

For the full year, it sees earnings between $6.70 and $7.10 a share, easily above the $6.67 consensus, on revenue of $20.5 billion to $20.7 billion, bracketing the average analyst estimate.

From Barron's ● May 28, 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

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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