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

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

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

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025

The researchers refer to this unique combination of VR and robotics as "technodelics" for technology-induced altered states of consciousness, used in the present study for the special case of technology-induced hallucinations.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 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