case study
Americannoun
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case studies
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a study of an individual unit, as a person, family, or social group, usually emphasizing developmental issues and relationships with the environment, especially in order to compare a larger group to the individual unit.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of case study
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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In reality, according to the case study, the patient hadn’t declined at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Another patient, a 65-year-old veteran whose experience was chronicled in a case study published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry this spring, fed ChatGPT the results of two previous memory tests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
To investigate the problem, Sinibaldi and lead author Francisca Paiva, a physicist at Instituto Superior Técnico, developed a detailed computer model using the European Space Agency's Argonaut mission as a case study.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
The prime minister had sought to seize this brief opportunity to project direction and delivery and saw the Defence Investment Plan, or DIP, as a case study in both.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
NYE: I’d like to offer you as a case study at my next Princeton lecture.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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