special case
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She added she was not looking for a "special case" for her son, but wanted the killers of all emergency workers to be exempt from the early release scheme.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
But Iraq has long been a special case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
"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
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
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