special case

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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

But “The Daily Show” is a special case because of how Stewart sculpted it to be not merely a satirical sorta newscast.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2024

Having made a special case of Ernest Lawrence in one of his first official acts as Berkeley’s president, Sproul was not about to skimp on his new star’s research budget.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik