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  • noun Plural form of bracketing.

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Examples

  • Sure, I may spend more or less time on a particular scene or issue, depending on the course, but some passages I talk about or have my class work through nine times out of ten--and it's useful to have my underlinings, bracketings, and brief marginal notes from all those previous classes to guide me or give me additional inspiration.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Flavia 2008

  • Sure, I may spend more or less time on a particular scene or issue, depending on the course, but some passages I talk about or have my class work through nine times out of ten--and it's useful to have my underlinings, bracketings, and brief marginal notes from all those previous classes to guide me or give me additional inspiration.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008

  • The seedings and bracketings are self-explanatory.

    Archive 2004-10-01 2004

  • He came down off the little platform, where the flags were draped, with a step that was almost light, and into Captain Abner Tilghman's hand he put a copy of a city paper, turned and folded at a certain place, where a column of printed matter was scored about with heavy pencil bracketings.

    The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights 1910

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