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• plural of bracket.
• present tense form of bracket (3rd person singular).

brackets

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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.”

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Yet the significance of this meeting lies deeper than tournament brackets.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

“We made things so the progressivity of the tax code is a lot higher than the tax brackets would imply,” Reichstein says.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

That measure cements the top three income brackets on taxpayers making more than $360,000, with a top rate of 13.3% on millionaires—and all of its revenue would have to go to education.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

College students and young adults in entry-level jobs may fall into the 10% or 12% federal brackets.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

Shop signs swing toward the heat from their brackets; a potted hedge comes sliding across the rubble and capsizes.

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

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