case studies

noun

plural of case study
as in records
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 studies There are now some very good case studies showing where things are headed. — Jesse Kirshbaum, SPIN, 3 July 2026 This involves being brave when discussing case studies. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 22 June 2026 Business schools have relied on case studies that teach students through narrative. — Sreedhar Potarazu, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2026 And fifth, can the firm show case studies in the relevant industry with before-and-after search results? — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 17 June 2026 To overcome this hesitation, Paebbl is building real-world case studies. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026 The candidate from a Fortune 500 company is probably used to having marketing collateral, case studies, and a polished, mature product. — Kate Morgan, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 For now, the partnership is explicitly framed as an experiment, with results and case studies compiled into a Theatrical Distribution Playbook with plans to expand the model. — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 19 June 2026 Edited by architecture scholars Susan Holden and Ashley Paine, Keeping Culture offers a critical analysis of storage through an array of contemporary case studies ranging from Japan to Flanders. — Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 26 June 2026
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  1. records
  2. reports
  3. histories
  4. chronologies
  5. diaries
Noun
  • Kunst said there were some undocumented claims of miraculous cures prior to when records of such occurrences would be kept, dating back to the 1950s.
    — Vivian Wilson, Twin Cities, 8 July 2026
  • Most 10-Qs are cookie cutter documents disclosing financial figures already embedded in corporate records.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Definition of records
Noun
  • The Fire Department of New York responded early July 7 to reports of bricks falling from the 37-story building currently under construction on East 42nd Street, between 2nd and 3rd avenues, a heavily congested area of Manhattan.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 8 July 2026
  • More to the point, the quarterly reports reflect the highest-quality, detailed information, the information the SEC requires executives to disclose on pain of facing a civil lawsuit from the agency or even criminal liability for faking data.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Definition of reports
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  • Across the exhibition, photographs become places where personal histories intersect with broader cultural narratives, revealing how memory continues to evolve long after an image is made.
    — PhotoVogue, Vogue, 2 July 2026
  • Lee’s portrait, searching and moving, first sparked my enthusiasm about biographies as histories of eras and of minds.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 1 July 2026
Definition of histories
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of chronologies
Noun
  • Pfendler's video diaries explained the logistics of her passage and survival on the ocean.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
  • The film also draws on video diaries shot in Rushdie’s hospital room in the days after the attack by his wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 June 2026
Definition of diaries

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