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Recent Examples of case study
One case study detailed a man who drank 8 11-ounce servings of coconut water during the day.
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Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 6 Oct. 2025
But Singapore still offers a useful case study in how paying grandparents might work.
—Marina Lopes, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2025
Advertisement How to confront Iran’s water scarcity Iran is a stark case study of governments doubling down on bad policies.
—Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
Raven’s marvel of a case study recapitulates the dissonance whereby cycles—political, social, structural, ecological—continue, monuments are created and destroyed and momentum is incited and frustrated, all while costs continue to mount.
—Anne Reeve, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
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Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 6 Oct. 2025
But Singapore still offers a useful case study in how paying grandparents might work.
—Marina Lopes, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2025
Advertisement How to confront Iran’s water scarcity Iran is a stark case study of governments doubling down on bad policies.
—Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
Raven’s marvel of a case study recapitulates the dissonance whereby cycles—political, social, structural, ecological—continue, monuments are created and destroyed and momentum is incited and frustrated, all while costs continue to mount.
—Anne Reeve, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for case study
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Mooresville spent $300,000 on drones for its police department this year, plus $20,250 in sales tax, records show.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Oct. 2025
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The customer records were pilfered in a July breach.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2025
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Early Saturday, Ann Davis, 55, of Maynard was killed in a crash in rural Randolph County, a report from state police says.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Oct. 2025
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Multiple reports indicate Napier will be fired if the Gators lose a fifth game this season.—
Jordan Sigler,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Oct. 2025
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So, are the bullpen woes history?—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
17 Oct. 2025
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It was considered immoral to lie and the whole point of writing things down back then was to increase morality and improve society, so there really is no didactic history of forgery.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
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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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Miller’s approach to storytelling technique is as straightforward as the chronology, with a few exceptions.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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While the novel examines clashes between diverging approaches to justice, honor, and community, its looping chronology illustrates the inescapable ripples of national and family histories.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Yes, deals get done The diary of the workaday sales exec at most of the major distribs is filled with meetings with their acquisitions exec equivalent.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
17 Oct. 2025
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Bolton kept diaries — that is not a crime.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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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,
14 Oct. 2025
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This is a developing story and will be updated.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
13 Oct. 2025
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