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a published piece of writing about a person, group, or situation that has been studied over time
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Recent Examples of case study
There is a case in Zambia, though this is not one of our case studies, of the Women’s History Museum in Zambia using digitization as a way to connect Zambian communities with data about their heritage held in Sweden.
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Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026
Anyone heading to Spain twice in succession will have a case study in how different eclipses can feel.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 May 2026
But because of the comparative lack of accessible Soviet-era records, Forassiepi and his co-authors chose the probe as a case study.
—Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 10 May 2026
When the city first started installing LEDs in 2009, bulbs were set to 4,300 Kelvins, according to a case study.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
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Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026
Anyone heading to Spain twice in succession will have a case study in how different eclipses can feel.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 May 2026
But because of the comparative lack of accessible Soviet-era records, Forassiepi and his co-authors chose the probe as a case study.
—Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 10 May 2026
When the city first started installing LEDs in 2009, bulbs were set to 4,300 Kelvins, according to a case study.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for case study
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Text messages in court records show a brief and ambiguous exchange between McCluskie and Williamson that backs that up.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2026
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All three games in the series were tightly contested in a matchup between the two teams with the best records in the National League.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2026
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Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas did not discuss Mott’s extensive criminal history at a news conference Tuesday morning but noted that investigators were reaching out to his family and those who knew him seeking additional information about his motivations.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
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With Montreal’s big win, this is the first time in PWHL history that the higher seed has won a playoff series.—
Hailey Salvian,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
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Because his stance on climate change conflicts with overwhelming scientific consensus, the president has removed climate information from federal websites, approved scientifically unsound reports that favor fossil fuels, and gutted key scientific agencies and boards.—
Joseph Bonasia,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 May 2026
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The report argued that US export controls have slowed China’s ability to scale frontier AI development.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
14 May 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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Written in third person narration, the novel follows a linear chronology of events.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
8 May 2026
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The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office redacted the shooter’s precise movements through the school from a report that detailed his path and has consistently declined to make public the chronology of the attack, so Desmond’s exact route during the shooting remains unclear.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
1 May 2026
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These intimate reflections read like pages taken from private diaries, with all the informality and vulnerability of that genre, including misspellings and stray thoughts.—
Casey Cep,
New Yorker,
9 May 2026
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The studies cited used set caffeine doses or placebos and tracked participants with brain-wave monitoring, sleep diaries and questionnaires across hundreds to thousands of people.—
Samantha Agate,
Sacbee.com,
5 May 2026
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Galvin later confronted the man who had messaged Kianna, who told her several different stories, according to Childs’ report.—
Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
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This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, and reviewed and distributed by Stacker.—
Stacker,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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