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special case

NOUN
diplomatic immunity
Synonyms
WEAK
congressional immunity indemnity legislative immunity nonprosecution privilege special privilege
NOUN
grandfather clause
Synonyms
WEAK
grandfathering special privilege

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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

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

Yet the persecution of Pastor Jin and others must not be seen as a special case.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 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