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Bracketing is an English word. Below you'll find 8 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Bracketing | Bracket | Brackets | Bracketed

Bracketing meaning

present participle and gerund of bracket

Using Bracketing

  • The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of bracket

Context around Bracketing

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

sides 1× adaptive 1×

Often after:

system 1× may 1× question 1×

Sentence patterns with Bracketing

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

both sides bracketing the school 1× bracketing may be 1× of them bracketing 1× possible by bracketing all assumptions 1× rather than bracketing 1× taps adaptive bracketing for improved 1× use of bracketing question marks 1× within this bracketing system though 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

apple says that 1× bracketing may be 1× cofer also received 1× knowledge of essences 1× stanley elkin 1991 1× the both sides 1×

Common sentence endings:

an external world 1× low light shots 1× of them bracketing 1× organizations or companies 1× pro palestinian protestors 1× rather than bracketing 1×

Words around Bracketing

Just before it in the word index:

bracketed 22 bracket 532 brackenridge 15 brackenrich 3 brackenhurst 7 brackenfell 2

Just after it in the word index:

bracketology 4 brackets 228 brackett 40 brackin 4 brackins 2 brackish 50

Similar in corpus frequency:

aargau 11 abacos 11 abboud 11 abbreviate 11 abdelkader 11 abdomens 11

Corpus analysis for Bracketing

  • In this selection, "bracketing" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, sides, adaptive, system, may and question stand out and add context to how "bracketing" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include both sides bracketing the school and bracketing may be. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "bracketing" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with bracketing

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Bracketing may be used and may be needed to disambiguate terms. (11 words)

Knowledge of essences would only be possible by " bracketing " all assumptions about the existence of an external world. (18 words)

The "both sides" bracketing the school Chancellor I was referring to are the local Jewish student group/Senate inquiry and the pro-Palestinian protestors. (24 words)

Longer example sentences

There was a physical relation of the illustrations to the text, intended to subtly mesh illustrations with certain points of the text. citation Carroll and Tenniel expressed this in various ways; one of them bracketing. (35 words)

Cofer also received $200 from what would qualify as “real estate interests” within this bracketing system, though those were two individual realtors who gave $100 each, not contributions from organizations or companies. (32 words)

Stanley Elkin, 1991, The MacGuffin, p. 173 This is quite common in Spanish, where the use of bracketing question marks explicitly indicates the scope of interrogation. (26 words)

Example sentences (8)

Cofer also received $200 from what would qualify as “real estate interests” within this bracketing system, though those were two individual realtors who gave $100 each, not contributions from organizations or companies.

The "both sides" bracketing the school Chancellor I was referring to are the local Jewish student group/Senate inquiry and the pro-Palestinian protestors.

Apple says that the flash is 36% brighter, while it has a new night mode that taps adaptive bracketing for improved low-light shots.

As with any notation, the innermost expressions are evaluated first, but in prefix notation this "innermost-ness" can be conveyed by order rather than bracketing.

Bracketing may be used and may be needed to disambiguate terms.

Knowledge of essences would only be possible by " bracketing " all assumptions about the existence of an external world.

Stanley Elkin, 1991, The MacGuffin, p. 173 This is quite common in Spanish, where the use of bracketing question marks explicitly indicates the scope of interrogation.

There was a physical relation of the illustrations to the text, intended to subtly mesh illustrations with certain points of the text. citation Carroll and Tenniel expressed this in various ways; one of them bracketing.

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "bracketing" in a sentence?
An example: "Cofer also received $200 from what would qualify as “real estate interests” within this bracketing system, though those were two individual realtors who gave $100 each, not contributions from organizations or companies." This page contains 8 example sentences with the word "bracketing" from authentic English texts.
What does "bracketing" mean?
Bracketing means: present participle and gerund of bracket
How many example sentences with "bracketing" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 8 example sentences with "bracketing", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.