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Let’s start with some etymology: What are the origins of the typographical word “bracket”?

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15

To be fair, this is one of the least-insulting comparisons Watters could have made.
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He has one of the least-lined faces of anyone I have ever met.
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When you're among the least-prepared students in the class, you're likely to struggle.
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The great auk is but a memory; the bittern booms more rarely in our eastern marshes; and now they tell me Brigadiers are extinct.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 28, 1920|Various
It may, therefore, be as well to point out the principal distinctions between this bird and the Common Bittern last mentioned.
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He bolted half a mile with the first boom of the bittern, and his hat lifted with every yelp of the sheitpoke.
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Along the creeks and river sides, and in the wet savannas, six species of the bittern will engage your attention.
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Within three paddle-lengths of my boat, in a patch of dark that must be a nest, stood my least bittern.
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