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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 studies
If Grosz’s first book, The Examined Life, was all about his patients’ personal lives and struggles, Love’s Labor—which is written in a similar way, as a series of case studies—is much more interested in his patients’ approach to love, specifically.
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Daisy Jones, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2026
Ever since, Caesar remains one of history’s most compelling case studies in leadership.
—Paul Vanderbroeck, Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
Both women had something to gain, Adams needed Tolles’ eye and labor, Tolles needed more case studies for her social media and business website.
—Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
These are new case studies on how larger companies are deploying AI internally.
—Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
Those fellows had a front-row look at tyranny, with case studies strewed before them — Nero, Caligula, Commodus, Domitian, Tiberius.
—David Brooks, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
And Silenced is about that fight, using headline-grabbing cases from around the world as case studies.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 22 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
Lifecycle case studies have shown fuel savings of over 60 percent, and because electric drivetrains have fewer moving parts than diesel drivetrains, maintenance costs are lower too.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Nov. 2025
Daisy Jones, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2026
Ever since, Caesar remains one of history’s most compelling case studies in leadership.
—Paul Vanderbroeck, Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
Both women had something to gain, Adams needed Tolles’ eye and labor, Tolles needed more case studies for her social media and business website.
—Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
These are new case studies on how larger companies are deploying AI internally.
—Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
Those fellows had a front-row look at tyranny, with case studies strewed before them — Nero, Caligula, Commodus, Domitian, Tiberius.
—David Brooks, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
And Silenced is about that fight, using headline-grabbing cases from around the world as case studies.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 22 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
Lifecycle case studies have shown fuel savings of over 60 percent, and because electric drivetrains have fewer moving parts than diesel drivetrains, maintenance costs are lower too.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for case studies
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In Wednesday's ruling, the appeals court opined that even if some of the records are protected by copyright law, Metro Nashville police could still allow the public to inspect them without running afoul of the law.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Feb. 2026
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The skyscraper known as the Graffiti Towers — officially the Oceanwide Plaza development — has reached a bankruptcy exit agreement that paves the way for a potential sale, court records show.—
Iris Kwok,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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The latest earnings reports from major technology companies have revived investors’ concerns about payoffs on elevated artificial intelligence (AI) spending.—
TipRanks,
CNBC,
8 Feb. 2026
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General amnesty law The government has denied that there are political prisoners in Venezuela, rejecting the accusations of torture and ill treatment and saying reports on human rights abuses behind bars are false and politically motivated.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2026
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In his view, the state should cooperate with ICE, which in turn would help the agency focus on arresting people with criminal histories while reducing the likelihood of violent encounters between federal officers and the public.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
8 Feb. 2026
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What would happen next – Russell Wilson taking the snap, turning to Ricardo Lockette and firing a pass only for Butler to get there first and intercept the ball – changing the two franchises in ways that will last for the rest of their histories.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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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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This requires a set of skills to interrogate the past by probing deeply, constructing and reconstructing chronologies, and contemplating counterfactuals in which different decisions might have significantly altered subsequent events.—
John T. Shaw,
Twin Cities,
5 Nov. 2025
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Yet perhaps even more striking than the pictures are the words taken from prisoners’ letters, diaries, and memoirs.—
Drew Gilpin Faust,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 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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