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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 Each of the four provides an interesting case study on what teams and networks will tolerate. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026 What Siemens Did With 100 Bank Accounts An October 2025 Deutsche Bank case study describes Siemens consolidating more than 100 North American bank accounts into one physical account supported by virtual accounts. — Andreas Schweitzer, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026 An individual case study showed that one individual consumed 287 hours of emergency responder time over 15 months, causing more than 200 other 911 callers to experience response delays of more than one minute. — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Programming will be highly curated and editorially led, organizers added, spanning headline conversations, unexpected pairings, global trends and data, cultural insight and case studies from across the international entertainment business. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for case study

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California records show Zhang has been a licensed real estate agent since 2016.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
For products other than plastic food containers, companies would have had to provide records to the attorney general upon request if a violation was suspected.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026

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Brower and her partner, Aspen Simone, dug into books about pigeon behavior and their history with humans.

— KYLE MELNICK THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
The uncertainty lay in how to care for themselves, honor that history and make space for a future.

— Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2026

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An April 2025 legionella report obtained by The Sacramento Bee shows the bacteria was found in at least 17 samples, including those taken from the men’s locker room, a women’s bathroom and several janitor closets.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Months later, a report found the state hadn't complied with its own lethal injection process since its revision in 2018, resulting in executions being conducted without proper testing of the drugs.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 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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By resisting the siloing of art by geography and chronology, the rehang interrogated the style and substance of European modernism, as well as the ways later generations of artists reclaimed those histories.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Sam Levy’s editing likewise darts associatively between these moods, seemingly letting sense memory shape the chronology of proceedings.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026

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The film follows a boy who rebuilds his late mother from her texts, voice, and diary, and what wakes up never gives an order.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
Literary Agency, Germany The debut novel explores family grief and trauma, generational friction, and memory through a narrative puzzle emerging from diaries and testimonies.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2026

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There was a period where airspace was closed in the Gulf after the Iran conflict began, and then questions about whether the region’s growth story would be interrupted.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
In the end, creation stories feels a bit like an internal pep talk for which an audience didn’t necessarily need to be present.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026

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