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a published piece of writing about a person, group, or situation that has been studied over time a case study of prisoners case studies of patients with the rare disease
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Recent Examples of case study This year’s winners gave the Academy a solid case study. —
Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 14 Apr. 2026 Fury, 37, is a perfect case study of that. —Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026 Prospect, which ProPublica reported on in 2020, has become a case study on the public harms that can stem from private equity’s growing involvement in health care. —Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 9 Apr. 2026 For anyone tracking how climate signals translate into real-world consequences, Antarctica is becoming one of the clearest case studies unfolding in real time. —Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for case study
Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 14 Apr. 2026 Fury, 37, is a perfect case study of that. —Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026 Prospect, which ProPublica reported on in 2020, has become a case study on the public harms that can stem from private equity’s growing involvement in health care. —Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 9 Apr. 2026 For anyone tracking how climate signals translate into real-world consequences, Antarctica is becoming one of the clearest case studies unfolding in real time. —Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for case study
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In that litigation, which has to do with the withholding of records in the case, a deputy city attorney and a San Diego police captain claimed on March 16 that the incident was still under review by the district attorney’s office for potential prosecution of the involved officers.— Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
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Overall the Red Sox have scored two or fewer in 12 of their first 25 games this season, and with a 9-16 record the club is tied for the second-fewest wins in MLB while sitting seven games back of the Yankees in the AL East standings.— Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
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Nowhere has the flipping of the form books been more striking than in La Liga, where two weekends ago — for only the third time in history — each of the bottom five teams picked up maximum points.— Thom Harris, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
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Sixteen original structures are on the property, along with two permanent exhibitions about the history of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery in Louisiana.— Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 21 Apr. 2026
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Mealey and the Defenders, who have filed a lawsuit against the city that seeks to block the public-private stadium plan and is being weighed by the Supreme Judicial Court, are reacting to an ESPN report that states the NWSL board is set to vote next week on the potential schedule change.— Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
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Experts said its demise was not about competition but more about the company’s poor financial decisions, according to a Bloomberg report.— Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
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Researchers who want to do something similar to this mini-experiment will likely need to come up with entirely new and unseen case histories.— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
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But if Charity’s case history imposes some order and fixity on Eugene’s life, the rest of The Knockout Artist reads like an attempt to thwart this, to replace the tidiness of explanation with something more formless and free.— Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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In 2015, Colin Fries of the NASA History Division compiled a chronology of wake-up calls.— Melissa Gaffney, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
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The musical, which examines in jumbled chronology the five-year relationship between novelist Jamie and actress Cathy, debuted in Chicago in 2001 and opened off Broadway the following year.— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 4 Apr. 2026
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The tracks are more vulnerable, biting, and self-aware than ever, and in some cases, feature lyrics pulled right out of Hjelt’s diary.— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2026
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Miller and Ware wrote a diary of havoc in the postseason.— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2026
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Partners have no control over or input into the reporting or editing process and do not review stories before publication.— Data Skrive, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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