case study
Americannoun
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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
Etymology
Origin of case study
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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Truist Securities analyst Matthew Coad said in a note that Block may be a “case study” for how companies’ investments in AI could “adversely impact employment rates.”
From MarketWatch
It's another case study in the flux and unpredictability in our politics right now.
From BBC
This saga’s gnarled roots stretch back to 2020, the year “Promising Young Woman” was released in theaters, and a year worthy of its own case study on its impact on cinema alone.
From Salon
Instead, an ambitious pan-European project has become a case study into some of what has gone wrong with the region’s defense push.
By every indication, Victor had grown up alone in the forests of southern France and presented a case study for Enlightenment thinkers about the human being’s capacity to learn past a certain age.
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