special case
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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GLP-1s are a special case: Patients are willing to pay cash and bypass insurance altogether.
The weight-loss market is a special case shaped by conditions that don’t exist elsewhere in the drug industry, not least of which is the mass appeal of the product.
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
Yet the persecution of Pastor Jin and others must not be seen as a special case.
Britain, or “England,” the word he almost always uses in his overheated tweets, is clearly a special case.
From Salon
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