bracket
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Finally, those waiting for a 16-team Division 1 bracket are wasting their time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 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
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
After tearing Manchester City apart in large spells of their 4-2 Champions League victory on Wednesday, Paris St-Germain look well on track to join the latter bracket.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Her stiff gray hair caught the lamplight, glinting like stainless steel, and the blue hawk she had inherited from Lord Roke spread his wings briefly on the bracket by the door.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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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
He provided two examples of municipal bonds rated AAA by S&P, Moody’s and Fitch Ratings, and here we will show the taxable-equivalent yields for five federal income-tax brackets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
One thing all the income brackets have in common: “Everyone’s looking for value,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
I'll make those brackets and install them tomorrow.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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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
For my birthday, she gifted me a T-shirt featuring a worm with a mustache bracketed by the phrase “You’re a Worm with a Mustache.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
Like the Peruvian littoral, it is bracketed by sea and mountains, but it catches, rather than misses, the prevailing winds, and the rain that comes with them.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
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
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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