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case study

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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 study The 2026 Astros are a case study in making things more difficult than needed. — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2026 Recently, micropaleontologists integrated and synthesized data on the shell-coiling direction, or chirality, of several species from case studies of forams dating back as far as 56 million years. — Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2026 But new guidance from the Texas Medical Board includes only a case study with an ectopic pregnancy that can be seen in an ultrasound, remaining silent on the difficulty of early ultrasounds to detect where a pregnancy has implanted. — Andrea Suozzo, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2026 Every detail is a case study in Japanese hospitality, craftsmanship, and cuisine. — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for case study

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Their pristine state has preserved a chemical record largely untouched by melting or extreme heat.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
East of this zone, the extra warmth is nearing 4 degrees Celsius, beating the previous record event in 1997 by half a degree.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 21 Sep. 2026

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Scotto’s able to watch customers enjoy dishes rooted in his family’s history—including Grandma’s Potato Croquettes—while employees make money and a brand his family owns continues to grow.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026
Gray has a long history with the festival, having closed it with The Lost City of Z and marked its anniversary with a special screening of Armageddon Time.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2026

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His case history is also rife with second chances that Iriarte-Valdez received after being accused of serious crimes, including the final one — just a day before the homicide, he’d been released from jail in a still-pending felony burglary case.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026
Judges review case histories, behavioral records, risk assessments, and recommendations from probation staff before allowing someone in custody to participate in outside programming.

— Sean Garcia Leys, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2026

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The Lucas Museum pushes that approach further by making storytelling — not chronology, geography or medium — the organizing principle for an entire institution, placing illustration, comics and commercial art inside a curatorial framework.

— Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
One of the best actors working today, Coon essentially plays two different sides of Rita with astonishing range across these chronologies, portraying the past and the present of her character through distinctive markers.

— Tomris Laffly, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

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In the diaries, Pavese casts his impotence into a kind of worldview.

— Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
The memoir, out April 27, 2027, via Penguin Random House, traces Zauner’s year in South Korea, connecting with her family in Seoul and learning Korean in the hopes of reading her late mother’s diary.

— Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026

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Makary's time at the agency was defined by scientific disputes, leadership changes and a string of media stories detailing low morale and internal dysfunction among staffers.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026
There’s a story there, a complicated and disturbing one, but the new Netflix film Unabomber won’t be the one to give it to us.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026

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