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bracket

[brak-it] / ˈbræk ɪt /


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And after a positive start in Spain, where he has already picked up five assists in La Liga, Gordon looks to be joining boss Thomas Tuchel's "undroppable" bracket.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

But the slate of games Sunday sorted out the rest of the postseason bracket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Voting officially opened Sept. 22, continuing a tradition started in 2014 to select which bears are the best and most fat using a March Madness-style bracket.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

This yield would be equivalent to a pretax yield of double that amount for an investor in the highest tax bracket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Inside the door, a small blue hawk was perching on a bracket.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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

People across income brackets are still traveling, but many are altering their behaviors to make vacations fit into their budget, Wynn says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

There was an old-style spyglass secured with brackets.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

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

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

It is possible that countries could be very broadly bracketed into different levels of a basically universal tariff.

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2025

He paused alongside the wall, the rust-colored soil at his feet spreading for miles around, his view bracketed by the San Jose Mountains to the south and a majestic limestone bluff to the north.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2025

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

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

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

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

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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