special case

Example Sentences

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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

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Salon

Reagan says some companies had been "engaging in unfair trade practices" and going against an agreement with the US - and that this was therefore a "special case".

From BBC