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Recent Examples of case study
That skill is rarely taught in a case study.
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Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2026
Harvard University freshman point guard Malik Mack was sitting in his American Capitalism class as a case study in the big business of college basketball was silently unfolding on his phone.
—Janet Lorin, Bloomberg, 19 Mar. 2026
For anyone tracking how representation and identity conversations are reshaping entertainment, Zegler’s experience offers a case study in the specific pressures facing multicultural performers — and how some are choosing to respond.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
The clearest case study right now isn’t a sports brand.
—Kati Fernandez, Sportico.com, 12 Mar. 2026
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Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2026
Harvard University freshman point guard Malik Mack was sitting in his American Capitalism class as a case study in the big business of college basketball was silently unfolding on his phone.
—Janet Lorin, Bloomberg, 19 Mar. 2026
For anyone tracking how representation and identity conversations are reshaping entertainment, Zegler’s experience offers a case study in the specific pressures facing multicultural performers — and how some are choosing to respond.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
The clearest case study right now isn’t a sports brand.
—Kati Fernandez, Sportico.com, 12 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for case study
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Oklahoma City led 82-51 at the break, falling a point short of the Thunder regular-season record for points in a half.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
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The forthcoming scorecards are just one way the group plans to track the public-lands voting records of Wyoming lawmakers.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
3 Apr. 2026
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By the first week of December, Olsson boasted seven goals in five matches, becoming the first player in WSL history to score four goals in her first five starts.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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Noah Gregor scored the fastest goal to begin a game in franchise history, Mackie Samoskevich followed shortly after to give Florida its fastest two goals to begin a game in franchise history, and the Panthers never looked back in a 6-3 win over the Ottawa Senators at Amerant Bank Arena.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
1 Apr. 2026
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An April 2 Challenger, Gray & Christmas report may have confirmed some of their fears.—
Rachel Barber,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2026
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Preliminary reports from the NTSB do not detail probable causes of crashes or any contributing factors.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Apr. 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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The musical, which examines in jumbled chronology the five-year relationship between novelist Jamie and actress Cathy, debuted in Chicago in 2001 and opened off Broadway the following year.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
4 Apr. 2026
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These sentences, written by Averbuch’s translators Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky, appear on the first page of Averbuch’s facing-page bilingual collection Furious Harvests—the only page in the book where chronology can be told quite so simply.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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The Royal Maundy Service is a steep tradition in the royal diary, taking place every year on the Thursday before Easter Sunday.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
2 Apr. 2026
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The veteran author and journalist has pulled from letters, diaries, interviews with aging survivors, and many other sources to chart how life and behavior shifted in the German capital from 1939 to 1945.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
1 Apr. 2026
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This story was produced with financial support from Trish and Dan Bell and donors in South Florida’s Jewish and Muslim communities, including Khalid and Diana Mirza and the Mohsin and Fauzia Jaffer Foundation, in partnership with Journalism Funding Partners.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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The filmmaker ultimately sees it as a story about unconditional love.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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