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a published piece of writing about a person, group, or situation that has been studied over time
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Recent Examples of case studies
Candidates routinely face five to eight interview rounds, panel presentations, case studies, and personality assessments before receiving an offer.
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Sydney Lake, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
Much of that debate has relied on case studies and politicized headlines, including in the case of the Panama Canal.
—Dylan Spencer, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2026
These case studies offer a cautionary roadmap for Anthropic.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026
What’s next for Anthropic These case studies offer a cautionary roadmap for Anthropic.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2026
Think about the difference between case studies and population surveys in sciences.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
The program will offer weekly classes led by López Estrada and Antigravity’s head of development Holly Stanton, alongside case studies involving top indie filmmakers and industry experts.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026
If Grosz’s first book, The Examined Life, was all about his patients’ personal lives and struggles, Love’s Labor—which is written in a similar way, as a series of case studies—is much more interested in his patients’ approach to love, specifically.
—Daisy Jones, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2026
Ever since, Caesar remains one of history’s most compelling case studies in leadership.
—Paul Vanderbroeck, Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
Sydney Lake, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
Much of that debate has relied on case studies and politicized headlines, including in the case of the Panama Canal.
—Dylan Spencer, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2026
These case studies offer a cautionary roadmap for Anthropic.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026
What’s next for Anthropic These case studies offer a cautionary roadmap for Anthropic.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2026
Think about the difference between case studies and population surveys in sciences.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
The program will offer weekly classes led by López Estrada and Antigravity’s head of development Holly Stanton, alongside case studies involving top indie filmmakers and industry experts.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026
If Grosz’s first book, The Examined Life, was all about his patients’ personal lives and struggles, Love’s Labor—which is written in a similar way, as a series of case studies—is much more interested in his patients’ approach to love, specifically.
—Daisy Jones, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2026
Ever since, Caesar remains one of history’s most compelling case studies in leadership.
—Paul Vanderbroeck, Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for case studies
Noun
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The records pulled back a curtain on favor-trading and frank communications in a chummy elite that looked past Epstein's 2008 guilty plea to solicitating prostitution from an underage girl in Florida.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
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The forthcoming scorecards are just one way the group plans to track the public-lands voting records of Wyoming lawmakers.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Preliminary reports indicated that a Toyota Camry, driven by a 45-year-old Joliet woman, was stopped southbound on Springfield Avenue at West Jefferson Street, waiting to turn right onto westbound Jefferson Street.—
Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Neither SpaceX nor Musk has yet publicly commented on the reports.—
Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The group will highlight stories and histories from the United States and Central and South America as told through musical repertoire and historic instruments.—
Sheila Regan,
Twin Cities,
29 Mar. 2026
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Though local histories differ, fossil capitalism and the imperialism that sustains it have produced a regional trauma carried across borders in memory, bodies and ecosystems.—
Mehrnoush Soroush,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Plaintiff attorneys have built similar tools capable of producing polished demand letters, medical chronologies, and settlement ranges using massive legal datasets.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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The Southern Sinagua people, hardy folk who lived in the area from about 1150 to around 1400, drew them to mark major happenings in their world, keep chronologies of celestial events or map out favorite Verde River hotspots.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
23 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The diaries also included criticism of the Great Leap Forward, an industrialization program championed by Mao from 1958 to 1961 that caused a famine estimated to have killed as many as 40 million people.—
Jennifer Jett,
NBC news,
1 Apr. 2026
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The veteran author and journalist has pulled from letters, diaries, interviews with aging survivors, and many other sources to chart how life and behavior shifted in the German capital from 1939 to 1945.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
1 Apr. 2026
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