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Recent Examples of case study
In other words, scientists don’t have a case study to look up to or be inspired by in their quest to reverse the Great Salt Lake’s demise.
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Tomris Laffly, Variety, 22 Jan. 2026
The Kiel study was based on shipment records covering more than 25 million transactions valued at nearly $4 trillion, as well as on case studies of how Indian and Brazilian exporters responded to sharp tariff increases Trump imposed on those countries last year.
—Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
One case study reported an athlete taking creatine, ephedra, caffeine, and other supplements experiencing a stroke.
—Kirstyn Hill, Health, 20 Jan. 2026
Both authors write as recovering fawners, weaving their own stories through case studies and explication of therapeutic motifs.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
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Tomris Laffly, Variety, 22 Jan. 2026
The Kiel study was based on shipment records covering more than 25 million transactions valued at nearly $4 trillion, as well as on case studies of how Indian and Brazilian exporters responded to sharp tariff increases Trump imposed on those countries last year.
—Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
One case study reported an athlete taking creatine, ephedra, caffeine, and other supplements experiencing a stroke.
—Kirstyn Hill, Health, 20 Jan. 2026
Both authors write as recovering fawners, weaving their own stories through case studies and explication of therapeutic motifs.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for case study
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Rose emphasized the importance of the dig, as Chinese American cowboys were often overlooked in the historical record, despite having a big economic impact.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The company launched 21 missions last year, setting a new Rocket Lab record.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Washington — Federal Reserve officials convene this week at a pivotal moment in the US central bank’s 112-year history, with a series of historic events putting a spotlight on their ability to set interest rates without political interference.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
28 Jan. 2026
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This is the moment history will ask about.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Jan. 2026
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According to a Forbes report, the app store is built on OM1, OpenMind’s modular operating system, which allows developers to create apps that package specific skills for distribution across multiple robot platforms.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Jan. 2026
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Coleman declined to pursue the case, a police report said.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 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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Plaintiff attorneys have built similar tools capable of producing polished demand letters, medical chronologies, and settlement ranges using massive legal datasets.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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The events that Herbert films are undated; the movie only hints at chronology, and its dramatic arc is a surprising one, revealing a change of consciousness by way of changes of circumstance.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2026
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After the family is discovered and sent to concentration camps, Gies preserves young Anne’s (Billie Boullet) diary and eventually sees its publication.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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Sometimes these notebooks are written like real diaries, which can be fascinating and revealing.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
29 Jan. 2026
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Beyond the famous spaceships, X-Wing and TIE Fighter also brought compelling stories set in the Star Wars universe, alongside technical advancements like fully 3D graphics in place of the bitmap sprites of previous titles.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Ludwig wrote in an Instagram story sharing the news on Thursday.—
Amarachi Orie,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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