special case
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
But as people who shared the experience of being “mocked and feared, blamed and banished, envied and imitated,” often allied, sometimes antagonists, theirs is a special case.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
Britain, or “England,” the word he almost always uses in his overheated tweets, is clearly a special case.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025
Ever since the first grade, she had forced her teachers to make a special case of her.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
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