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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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For these assignments, students chose one work of speculative fiction and use it as a case study to practice observation, analysis, and create a research plan.
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025
Chang realized these investors' buy-to-rent strategy provided an ideal case study of what happens when more rentals are available.
—Alex Mayyasi, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025
Global case studies of companies deploying such innovations.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
The first series focuses on criminal psychology, examining what drives ordinary people to commit murder through case studies featuring interviews with investigators and those who knew the perpetrators.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025
Chang realized these investors' buy-to-rent strategy provided an ideal case study of what happens when more rentals are available.
—Alex Mayyasi, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025
Global case studies of companies deploying such innovations.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
The first series focuses on criminal psychology, examining what drives ordinary people to commit murder through case studies featuring interviews with investigators and those who knew the perpetrators.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for case study
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So, now going to the club with records playing, playing for kids that were not alive when some of these songs came out and watching a really great young DJ like Cosmo play this music from the same era with her own slant on it.—
Steve Baltin,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The report said that water storage in Washington’s five reservoirs in the Yakima River Basin has dropped sharply, bringing levels, at times, to some of the lowest measured since record-keeping started in 1971.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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The Rebels have not listed him on their recent availability reports, but ESPN reported early Saturday that Simmons will be a game-time decision.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Sep. 2025
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Declining soil moisture and low streamflow are leading to stress on crops and livestock in the Midwest, according to an online report from DTN Weather.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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The barebones campaign website of Brad Gaines touts his history as a football player in high school and at Vanderbilt University.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Doctors struggle to access complete patient histories, researchers spend months cleaning inconsistent datasets, and hospitals face spiraling costs just to keep outdated systems running.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 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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One is Bruce's private diary, and the other is a larger, public declaration.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Sep. 2025
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The journal is a combination of a diary and sketchbook, with a mix of lined and blank pages.—
Yamillah Hurtado,
People.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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As a recent ProPublica story revealed, the promises of the H-2A visa program can be undermined by extreme abuses the workers suffer, mostly by labor contractors.—
Max Blau,
ProPublica,
16 Sep. 2025
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The dream drive package includes private transfer to The Barn, Napa Valley Car Club's exclusive clubhouse, post-drive drinks and stories and return transfer.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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