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Recent Examples of case study
For CFOs weighing corporate footprint decisions, Griffin’s Miami playbook offers a compelling case study.
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Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
In any event, Curet’s Emma is a case study and a cipher.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
Hoang models the potential sales of these drugs by using Johnson & Johnson's Spravato, an intranasal ketamine derivative first approved to address treatment-resistant depression in 2019 , as a case study.
—Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 29 Mar. 2026
In a new policy brief, UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment with technical support from Economic & Planning Systems analyzed economic data from three case study geographies to more accurately determine the differences in the cost of home ownership in California.
—Ethan Elkind, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
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Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
In any event, Curet’s Emma is a case study and a cipher.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
Hoang models the potential sales of these drugs by using Johnson & Johnson's Spravato, an intranasal ketamine derivative first approved to address treatment-resistant depression in 2019 , as a case study.
—Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 29 Mar. 2026
In a new policy brief, UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment with technical support from Economic & Planning Systems analyzed economic data from three case study geographies to more accurately determine the differences in the cost of home ownership in California.
—Ethan Elkind, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for case study
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The completion of probation will give her the opportunity to not have the offenses added to her record, KAIT and Fox San Antonio reported.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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Dëmin also set the Nets franchise record for 3-pointers made in an overtime by any player since tracking began in 1997-98, and tied the most by an NBA rookie.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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The history of struggle against technology is also the history of struggle over what makes the human different from the machine.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2026
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Indiana still needs two wins to avoid posting the lowest single season victory total in the franchise's NBA history.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
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If the injury report didn’t say it, the first half did.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Though tensions might not be as high as media reports suggested, not all is peachy between Rome and Washington.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Apr. 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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The musical, which examines in jumbled chronology the five-year relationship between novelist Jamie and actress Cathy, debuted in Chicago in 2001 and opened off Broadway the following year.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
4 Apr. 2026
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These sentences, written by Averbuch’s translators Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky, appear on the first page of Averbuch’s facing-page bilingual collection Furious Harvests—the only page in the book where chronology can be told quite so simply.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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The Royal Maundy Service is a steep tradition in the royal diary, taking place every year on the Thursday before Easter Sunday.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
2 Apr. 2026
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The veteran author and journalist has pulled from letters, diaries, interviews with aging survivors, and many other sources to chart how life and behavior shifted in the German capital from 1939 to 1945.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
1 Apr. 2026
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This story was produced with financial support from Trish and Dan Bell and donors in South Florida’s Jewish and Muslim communities, including Khalid and Diana Mirza and the Mohsin and Fauzia Jaffer Foundation, in partnership with Journalism Funding Partners.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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The filmmaker ultimately sees it as a story about unconditional love.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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