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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
Pillars of the Green Transition, which is set to take place next Wednesday, will bring specific case studies on energy storage, food systems and bioenergy to audiences at the magazine's New York headquarters.
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Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Bankruptcy filings and a viral 'Breakfast Club' showdown have turned the former mogul into a case study on ego, money, and the weight of reputation.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 18 Sep. 2025
Drawing from international human rights frameworks, theological ethics rooted in her Presbyterian tradition, and four historical case studies involving harm against AAPI communities, Kao examines both the moral and political dimensions of reparations.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2025
Transform this into a compelling mini case study for my sales funnel.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Bankruptcy filings and a viral 'Breakfast Club' showdown have turned the former mogul into a case study on ego, money, and the weight of reputation.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 18 Sep. 2025
Drawing from international human rights frameworks, theological ethics rooted in her Presbyterian tradition, and four historical case studies involving harm against AAPI communities, Kao examines both the moral and political dimensions of reparations.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2025
Transform this into a compelling mini case study for my sales funnel.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for case study
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Once holding the best record in baseball at 45-24, New York finished the season 83-79 and lost the tiebreaker with the Cincinnati Reds for the final wild-card spot in the National League.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Sep. 2025
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Total Chinese household savings currently stand at more than 160 trillion yuan ($22 trillion), a record high, according to HSBC.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
29 Sep. 2025
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One of the six runways at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport was closed for about 45 minutes early Saturday afternoon after reports of a drone sighting around noon (1000 GMT), military police spokesman Doron Wallin told The Associated Press.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 Sep. 2025
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The original Pastoral Recommendation Team report also included IHOPKC’s Taylor and three other former leaders.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
27 Sep. 2025
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Trump does have a long history of suing media companies, including a handful of successful lawsuits filed on the 2024 campaign trail and since entering office in January.—
Christian Datoc,
The Washington Examiner,
25 Sep. 2025
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The preview feature, available now for Pro subscribers on mobile, marks OpenAI's latest attempt to make ChatGPT proactive rather than reactive, with the AI model conducting overnight research to deliver morning updates based on user history and connected apps.—
Benj Edwards,
ArsTechnica,
25 Sep. 2025
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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 two of them are tightly bound not just by chronology but also by the stratifications of class; Marlowe’s father made shoes, and Shakespeare’s father made gloves.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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But Longo also disrupts the idea of typical film-watching chronology.—
Kristen Tauer,
Footwear News,
6 Sep. 2025
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The result is a mash-up of celebrity memoir and universal coming-of-age diary — a collection that’s funny, heartbreaking, and bracingly self-aware.—
Sophie Ansari,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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Bunny was the one who owned two copies of the writing diaries of Virginia Woolf.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
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Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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Her stories began running Monday and will continue this week.—
Shaun McKinnon,
AZCentral.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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