special case
Example Sentences
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"But this turned into a special case that required focused efforts and expertise of several different individuals. This was a complex mystery that required morphological, genetic, deep-sea and bioinformatics expertise to solve."
From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026
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
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
Two doctors and two nurses were in attendance—an unusual turnout for such a routine procedure, but this was a special case.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
