bracketologistn.
/brakᵻˈtɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ˌbrækəˈtɑlədʒəst/ 1. A person who works to resolve disputed passages, enclosed in brackets, in a written proposal.Apparently an isolated use.
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1992 Irish Times 2 June 9/1 The 600-page ‘Agenda 21’..has arrived in Rio festooned with brackets denoting the Issues still to be agreed..and it will be up to the bracketologists to ‘massage’ these outstanding differences.
2. U.S. An expert at making predictions about the participants in and outcomes of the games in a sporting tournament (typically the NCAA college basketball tournament); a person who practices bracketology (see bracketology n. 2).
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1996 Philadelphia Inquirer 25 Feb. c9/2 ‘I think they're in,’ said Lunardi, who calls himself a ‘bracketologist’.
2005 Town Talk (Electronic ed.) 19 Aug. b14 It doesn't take a bracketologist to know what a Peabody team with Turner and Simmons could do.
2016 Indiana Daily Student (Nexis) 9 Feb. 1 ESPN bracketologist Charlie Creme has the Hoosiers projected as a No. 10 seed.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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