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Because the didn't have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year olds with the eight-year olds.

Next, since so much social activity is defined by being bracketed out of the world of ongoing events, it becomes possible that outside such bracketed episodes, […] people are — especially beforehand, but also afterwards — to some extent "out of role", and so off their guard.

SIL got access to academic legitimacy; linguists bracketed the evangelical engine that drives SIL because they got access to data and tools.