brackets

1. Marks — [ ] — resembling parentheses with square corners. Brackets are often used within quotations to distinguish between the quoter's own words and those of the writer being quoted: “He [the president] made a memorable speech at Gettysburg.”

Example Sentences

Instead of asking, “How do I pay less taxes this year?” we’re asking, “How do we keep you in the lowest effective tax brackets over your lifetime?”

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Investors cheered Gap’s latest quarterly results after consumers across income brackets spent more on its apparel.

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Your next question starts with a similar answer – there’s no hard and fast rule for what age you should start Roth conversions; it depends on your income, the amount you’re converting and your tax brackets.

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That pledge already was deceptive, since Ms. Reeves intends to freeze the income-tax bands as inflation lifts more taxpayers into higher-rate brackets in nominal terms.

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That would appear to mean an extension in the £40bn a year freeze on tax thresholds - which raises an extra £8bn a year as more worker's salaries creep into the higher tax brackets .

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