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Recent Examples of case study
This year’s winners gave the Academy a solid case study.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for case study
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The following week at the San Jose Invitational, Wilkins broke his own world record on three consecutive throws, shattering the 70-meter and 230-feet barriers along the way.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
17 Apr. 2026
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The 27-year-old had previously been charged with first-degree murder, court records reviewed by PEOPLE show.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
17 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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Paula Wethington contributed to this report.—
Terrance Friday,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Associated Press writers Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul, South Korea, Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo, Japan and Aniruddha Ghosal in Hanoi, Vietnam contributed to this report.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 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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Soundtrack was originally released as an audiobook so adapting it into its new print form was a different experience for the author — and anyone who's ever read their old diaries may be able to relate to seeing old words with new eyes.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
16 Apr. 2026
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The interesting back-story could also be conveyed better than the diaries scattered around the world.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2026
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That means the street-facing facades cannot be changed although some features, like the second- and third-story windows bricked over by Owen Beidelman, could be restored.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Apr. 2026
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Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.—
Paloma Chavez,
PEOPLE,
18 Apr. 2026
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“Case study.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/case%20study. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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