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Examples of bracket in a Sentence
The shelf is held up with two brackets.
There are wall brackets in the garage for the rakes and shovels.
She is taller than average for her age bracket.
He earned enough to put him in a higher tax bracket.
She is now in a lower income bracket than before.
Recent Examples of bracket from the Web
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Consolation bracket: Hastings (Neb.) d. Calumet 168-190, 203-191, 171-234, 164-143, 253-181.
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In a bracket ripe for the picking, Kentucky basketball instead became another March Madness casualty.
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In fact, American workers will spend on average of about six hours focusing on basketball during the tournament—checking brackets, watching a game online, reading coverage, and verifying team rankings, according to staffing firm OfficeTeam.
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Some objected to Fieldwork being in the bracket in the first place because it is based in the East Bay.
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Everyone includes people who need accessibility [assistance], people from all income brackets, people that want to take leaps of faith, and people who don't.
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On the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask, SB Nation editor in chief Elena Bergeron talks about brackets, streaming apps and paying players.
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If the bracket is revealed right away, the second half of the two-hour show can be anticlimactic and repetitive in terms of analysis.
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Once the bracket is revealed, the fun begins immediately.
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bracket Synonyms
Synonyms
category, class, classification, division, family, genus, grade, group, kind, league, order, rank(s), rubric, set, species, tier, type;
Related Words
description, feather, ilk, kidney, like, manner, nature, sort;
branch, section, speciality, specialty, subclass, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, variety;
Definition of bracket
- editorial comments are bracketed
- news stories bracketed by commercials
- bracket off politics
- test pressures … which bracket virtually the entire range of passenger-car tire pressures
- —Consumer Reports
- bracketed in a tie for third
- bracketed the problem neatly
Examples of bracket in a Sentence
I wouldn't exactly bracket your paintings with those of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.
Recent Examples of bracket from the Web
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On the top floor, a single gallery features a convex wall that rises up and over a 33-foot peak, a kind of looming presence bracketed between two-story arched windows.
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Three extremely short contemporary plays by female playwrights – drawn from Tiny Plays for Ireland, an initiative by the Irish company Fishamble – function almost as palate cleansers, bracketing the older works.
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The bad karma bracket Mid-American Conference Tournament champion Buffalo thrashed Arizona, 89-68.
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The tournament will be re-bracketed after the quarterfinal round.
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The second theory speaks to a more practical approach by pointing out that Memorial Day and Labor Day bracketed the summer season, and therefore lighter, summery, white clothes were no longer needed.
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And next year, keep your eye on @RiceUniversity... — Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) April 2, 2018 The Rice Owls, who went 7-24 overall last season, didn't make the March Madness bracket this year.
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Their activism in red states is challenging the tenets of Republican governance in which austerity for public employees is bracketed with tax breaks for private business.
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Mutton chops thick enough for gray jays to nest in bracketed a wide smile.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'bracket.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of bracket
1836
BRACKET Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of bracket for English Language Learners
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: an object that is attached to a wall and used to support or hold up something (such as a shelf)
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: a category that includes a certain range of incomes, ages, etc.
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: either one of a pair of marks [ ] or 〈 〉 used to enclose words or mathematical symbols
bracket
Definition of bracket for English Language Learners
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: to place (words, symbols, etc.) within brackets
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: to be located at each side of (something)
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: to put (two or more people or things) into the same category, group, etc.
BRACKET Defined for Kids
Definition of bracket for Students
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