special case
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Britain, or “England,” the word he almost always uses in his overheated tweets, is clearly a special case.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025
Ever since the first grade, she had forced her teachers to make a special case of her.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
![]()
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.