Synonyms

special case

British

noun

law an agreed written statement of facts submitted by litigants to a court for a decision on a point of law

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special case

"But this turned into a special case that required focused efforts and expertise of several different individuals. This was a complex mystery that required morphological, genetic, deep-sea and bioinformatics expertise to solve."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 27, 2026

SpaceX is proving to be a special case, though, with a top-10 U.S. stock market valuation right out of the gate.

From Barron's ● Mar. 23, 2026

GLP-1s are a special case: Patients are willing to pay cash and bypass insurance altogether.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

Britain, or “England,” the word he almost always uses in his overheated tweets, is clearly a special case.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025

Anyhow they’s liable tuh need me tuh say uh few words over de carcass, dis bein’ uh special case.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

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