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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
Much of that debate has relied on case studies and politicized headlines, including in the case of the Panama Canal.
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Dylan Spencer, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2026
On the 13th of May, 2021, the Home Office sent agents out at dawn with orders to grab two Indian men, but what happened next is becoming a legend and a case study.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2026
Industry partner Nucor Wire Products will help review content, provide operational examples and case studies, and enroll employees in the pilot cohort, according to SCSU.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 3 Mar. 2026
Alysa Liu’s path from teenage retirement to Olympic gold offers a striking case study in why stepping away can be the move that makes everything else possible.
—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2026
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Dylan Spencer, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2026
On the 13th of May, 2021, the Home Office sent agents out at dawn with orders to grab two Indian men, but what happened next is becoming a legend and a case study.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2026
Industry partner Nucor Wire Products will help review content, provide operational examples and case studies, and enroll employees in the pilot cohort, according to SCSU.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 3 Mar. 2026
Alysa Liu’s path from teenage retirement to Olympic gold offers a striking case study in why stepping away can be the move that makes everything else possible.
—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for case study
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Other prominent arsenic peaks, alongside major sulfate peaks, likely indicate major volcanic events that align with records of 13th century eruptions recorded in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores.—
Nidhi Sharma,
Popular Science,
13 Mar. 2026
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In 2008, Klay Thompson of Santa Margarita scored 37 points and made a record seven three-pointers at the notoriously tough Arco Arena in Sacramento to help the Eagles win the Division III title over Sacramento 72-55.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Ogles also railed against two men who are being investigated in connection with explosives brought to an anti-Islamic protest in New York, though his history of making anti-Muslim posts goes back long before that incident.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Mar. 2026
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The 19-year-old San Diego native is just the 10th goalkeeper in league history to record three consecutive clean sheets to start a season.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
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Crude prices jumped following reports that two tankers were set ablaze in Iraqi waters after apparent Iranian strikes, part of a broader wave of attacks on oil and transport facilities across the Middle East.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
13 Mar. 2026
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Authorities also said Thursday there were no credible threats to California linked to reports of a potential Iranian drone strike along the West Coast.—
Daniel Hunt
March 12,
Sacbee.com,
13 Mar. 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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With ace editing by Alan Lowe, Neville follows a general chronology, but wisely avoids the completist minutiae of an album-by-album breakdown.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Feb. 2026
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Only some forty works of his are known to have survived, and the inability to create any sort of accurate chronology required the curators of From Shadow to Light, which contains more than twenty of his paintings, to organize the exhibition thematically.—
Nicole Krauss,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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Grace, in turn, grouses about his new roomie in a series of video diaries, which will be sent back to Earth.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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Producers have been working in association with the Anne Frank Fonds, which was founded by Anne’s father Otto Frank, and gained exclusive access to her diary and family archive.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2026
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Ghazali lived in a single-story brick home in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn Heights about 38 miles south of the synagogue.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Mar. 2026
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That Mann himself had written stories on gay themes added to the piquancy of the encounter.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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“Case study.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/case%20study. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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