as in type
one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic
they're in the same income bracket
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as in to compare
to describe as similar
I wouldn't exactly bracket your paintings with those of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci
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Recent Examples of bracket
Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
That passion is why The Denver Post chose green chile for this year’s March Madness food bracket, which kicks off today with 32 restaurants in the running.
—Jonathan Shikes, The Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2025
Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2025
The bombastic opening and closing credit sequences seem designed to bracket a movie whose outsized ride is wilder than this stubbornly modest enterprise ever manages.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
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Noun
With a pair of brackets, the speaker can be kept out of the way of children and pets.
Pricing & Availability.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
That passion is why The Denver Post chose green chile for this year’s March Madness food bracket, which kicks off today with 32 restaurants in the running.
—Jonathan Shikes, The Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2025
Verb
Longhorn defenders bracketed Smith the entire game to prevent big pass plays against them.
—Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2025
The bombastic opening and closing credit sequences seem designed to bracket a movie whose outsized ride is wilder than this stubbornly modest enterprise ever manages.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bracket
Verb
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The announcement came one day after Skerry revealed that the university had only $120,000 to build a team compared with $1.1 million for the College of Charleston and $500,000 for UNC Wilmington.—
Edward Lee,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Mar. 2025
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Last year, while Diesel, Maison Margiela and the direct-to-consumer channel all reported growth, the slowdown in China and a 15 percent decrease in the group’s wholesale channel impacted OTB’s turnover, which decreased 5.2 percent to 1.8 billion euros, compared with 1.9 billion euros in 2023.—
Luisa Zargani,
WWD,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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As with previous category launches, Beccari said the house is taking a long-term view with La Beauté Louis Vuitton.—
Miles Socha,
WWD,
5 Mar. 2025
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Other categories include electronics and electrical machinery, at $94.5 billion, miscellaneous at $78.9 billion, and metals, at $52.5 billion.—
Vicki M. Young,
Sourcing Journal,
5 Mar. 2025
Verb
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This was especially true as business interests, working to undermine progressive New Deal labor policies such as a federal minimum wage and unemployment insurance, openly equated support for these policies with Communism.—
Rebecca Brenner Graham / Made by History,
TIME,
4 Mar. 2025
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Aside from the lack of basic human compassion on display, this was a gross effort to equate diversity with incompetence.—
Ginger Cassady,
Newsweek,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Perhaps the largest of its kind was a retrospective analysis that appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2002.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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These wooden stakes, used to impede attackers, are the first of their kind to be recovered from this period.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Bracket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bracket. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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