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Recent Examples of case study
Palmer likewise published a 2019 case study in which two women diagnosed with schizophrenia stopped taking their antipsychotic medications after starting a keto diet.
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
Why This Research Stands Out for AI Applications For anyone tracking how AI is being applied outside its usual domains of business optimization and data analytics, this research offers a specific and instructive case study.
—Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2026
Brandin Podziemski is another interesting case study.
—Nick Friedell, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
While seeking a limerent object is a good case study in unconscious motivation, perhaps the best modern example of this phenomenon in practice is the cell phone.
—Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
Why This Research Stands Out for AI Applications For anyone tracking how AI is being applied outside its usual domains of business optimization and data analytics, this research offers a specific and instructive case study.
—Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2026
Brandin Podziemski is another interesting case study.
—Nick Friedell, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
While seeking a limerent object is a good case study in unconscious motivation, perhaps the best modern example of this phenomenon in practice is the cell phone.
—Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for case study
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The Wizards opened their post-All-Star schedule Thursday night with the league’s second-worst record, 14-39, by hosting the Indiana Pacers, who had the league’s fourth-worst record at 15-40.—
Josh Robbins,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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Whitney Murphy was shot three times, including in the back of the head at point-blank range, according to court records that referenced her autopsy report.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
20 Feb. 2026
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But there are two categories of nonprofessionals whose place in the history of the art strikes me as particularly exalted.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2026
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One team was coming off its highest high, the other off its lowest low, but recent history matters little whenever UCLA and USC meet.—
Steve Galluzzo,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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Whitney Murphy was shot three times, including in the back of the head at point-blank range, according to court records that referenced her autopsy report.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
20 Feb. 2026
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The data are preliminary and may change over time as more reports are received.—
Koko Nakajima,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 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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That family has expanded and relocated, as Emily herself noted in a quick chronology of the home team’s progression from Chinatown to Greenwich Village, then to a second place in Greenwich Village in just a few years.—
Robert Sullivan,
Vogue,
16 Feb. 2026
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The $720-million structure will serve as the new home for LACMA’s permanent collection with 90 exhibition galleries organized thematically rather than by medium or chronology.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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Interiors here draw from a range of cultural aesthetics, incorporating design elements from around the world as a reflection of the owner's varied travel diaries.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026
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This could include asking questions about when patients are noticing their hives (after a hot shower or after being in the sun, for example), or asking patients to keep a symptom diary.—
Zia Sherrell,
Health,
20 Feb. 2026
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Elsewhere, stories of economic gloom – from galloping inflation to restaurant closures and the knock-on impact of severe tax increases – describe the many ways in which the prolonged war in Ukraine is now hitting Russians hard in the pocket at home.—
Matthew Chance,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
20 Feb. 2026
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