BRACKET Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈbra-kət

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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bracket

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verb

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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contrast

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Recent Examples of bracket

Noun

For example, for the first draw, one of the clubs ranked 23rd or 24th will be drawn in one side of the bracket, leaving the other to be automatically placed on the opposite side. —

Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025 Of the audience above, 71% of viewers fell into the 55+ age bracket, while just 6% were aged 18-34. —

Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 21 Jan. 2025

Verb

However, a prominent customer behavior that is gaining momentum in online purchasing is bracketing, where customers buy multiple quantities of the same product in different sizes and return the ones that don’t fit. —

Shelley E. Kohan, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024 Kaliningrad sits on the Baltic Sea, bracketed by numerous NATO nations. —

Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bracket

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bracket

Verb

Since then, the bank posted a sweeping beat in the third quarter, with net profit attributable to shareholders coming in at $1.43 billion, compared with a mean forecast of $667.5 million in a LSEG poll of analysts.

— Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
Factories are operating at 81 percent of capacity, compared with prewar levels of less than 60 percent, and 73 percent of firms report labor shortages.

— Alexandra Prokopenko, Foreign Affairs, 21 Jan. 2025