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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 To overcome this hesitation, Paebbl is building real-world case studies. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026 Schickler said Pelosi’s name has repeatedly surfaced in his classes as a case study in how to maneuver the body, such as her role in pushing for passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026 Burnham argues Greater Manchester, which has been granted more power in the last decade and achieved greater growth, is a case study in how devolution can work. — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 29 June 2026 Antoine Fuqua, 127 minutes The new case study in the never-ending debate about critics versus fans is this Michael Jackson biopic. — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 26 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for case study

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Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings saw its net portfolio value climb to 518 billion Singapore dollars ($401 billion) for the year ended March 31, a second straight annual record.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 8 July 2026
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

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The pages contained everything to know, all the history of the island and the church.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Anticipation for the milestone holiday has been building for much of the year, serving as an opportunity for Americans to reflect on their complicated history as onetime colonists of an empire who became a superpower of their own.

— Steven Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026

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Times staff writers Seema Mehta and Phil Willon contributed to this report.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
The report argues that the museum has deemphasized America’s founding, noting the absence of major exhibits devoted to the Founding Fathers or key events of the American Revolution as the country marks its 250th anniversary.

— Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 6 July 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
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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He is credited as the first and most significant contributor to South Florida archaeology of the time, classifying materials, recording 49 sites across Miami-Dade and making the first outline of a chronology of indigenous habitation.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
For generations, society has conditioned us to measure life through chronology.

— Ricardo Bellino, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

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Published after her death at age 15 in a concentration camp, the diary became a classic of Holocaust literature and remains widely read.

— Frank DiGiacomo, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2026
Today, our diaries exist as a constant stream—clicked, posted, forgotten—submerged in an ever-expanding digital archive that almost no one revisits.

— Derek C. Blasberg, Vanity Fair, 7 July 2026

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This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 5 July 2026
Gil was trapped beneath more than 100 tons of rubble after the partial collapse of the Galerias Playa Grande commercial center, which includes buildings nine and four stories tall.

— Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026

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