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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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This law made permanent the tax rates and tax brackets originally enacted in 2017.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

I can hear the metal brackets that hold the fence to the support poles begin to snap.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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