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An actual event, situation, or fact.
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For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.
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A given condition or state.
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A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
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It was one of the detective's easiest cases. Social workers should work on a maximum of forty active cases. The doctor told us of an interesting case he had treated that morning.
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(academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
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The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.
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A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
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(grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.
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The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object. Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.
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(grammar) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
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Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages. Latin is a language that employs case.
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An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
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There were another five cases reported overnight.
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A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.