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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bracket.

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Examples

  • The two wedding-cake pulpits and the organ case opposite are as grand as can be, and interior so bracketed is the ne plus ultra of American colonial church architecture, plain and crisp and white, with exquisitely classical proportions.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • The name was bracketed on one side by a steaming cup of coffee and the other by a laptop.

    Act of Treason Vince Flynn 2006

  • The name was bracketed on one side by a steaming cup of coffee and the other by a laptop.

    Act of Treason Vince Flynn 2006

  • Media markets where candidates appear are now routinely "bracketed" by opposition surrogates: one the day before his arrival and another after he leaves.

    Unleashing The Campaign Attack Dogs 2008

  • Government requested that the aspects of the text that deal with creating pilot sites for rolling out of antiretrovirals be square 'bracketed' because it pre-empted the outcome of the process referred to above.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • They kind of bracketed the whole thing and we are clearly moving along on the bottom side of those scenarios.

    pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator Seeking Alpha 2009

  • The Japanese remember the 1998 North Korean missile test that "bracketed" their country.

    unknown title 2009

  • Going into Copenhagen, this text was heavily bracketed, meaning there was little consensus.

    ICTSD 2009

  • The Japanese remember the 1998 North Korean missile test that "bracketed" their country.

    StrategyPage.com 2009

  • On top of that, Kneal added that, the funds they receive from the University Park Allocation Committee (UPAC) are bracketed, meaning only certain money is allotted for certain items.

    The Daily Collegian Online - News 2009

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