What does bracket mean?
A punctuation mark used to enclose a word or phrase that is inserted in a quotation to clarify its meaning, or to indicate that a word or phrase is being used in a special sense. A pair of brackets or square brackets.
Example
"The professor used brackets to clarify the quote in the essay."
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