bracket
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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
His head slammed into a bracket as he cleared and he reached up to grab it and was free, in the air, hanging up in die tail.
From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
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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
For reference, here are links to NerdWallet’s list of New York and California income-tax brackets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 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
It was something to do with the question of whether commas should be placed inside brackets, or outside.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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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
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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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
There is, perhaps, at the heart of every composition, the door to a great mystery you might not even have realized you were bracketing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
Indeed, bracketing decorum under the heading of style is, to some extent, to put the cart before the horse.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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