special case
Example Sentences
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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
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
Outside of Madge and Oma’s apartment building, I carefully take the earbuds out and put them into their special case in my other pocket.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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