case study
noun
1
: an intensive analysis of an individual unit (such as a person or community) stressing developmental factors in relation to environment
2
Examples of case study in a Sentence
a case study of prisoners
The company's recent history is a case study in bad management.
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IEEE Spectrum, 9 Feb. 2025
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IEEE Spectrum, 9 Feb. 2025
Gazzaniga might be a case study of the effect the college football transfer portal has had on high school football.
—Steve Fryer, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2025
February 04, 2025 Cold Call is celebrating its tenth year of distilling Harvard Business School case studies into podcast episodes.
—Harvard Business Review, 4 Feb. 2025
There’s a smattering of case studies and comparison studies to support this statement.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 30 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for case study
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“Case study.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/case%20study. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.
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