How to Use independent study in a Sentence

independent study

noun
  • The peer-reviewed, independent study was published in 2023.
    Jeffrey Tomik, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
  • This is academia as romance, independent study as origin story, and I, for one, was entertained.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Isabel Gallego, a high school senior doing independent study, was last seen by her parents the night of April 19, and was not in her room the following morning, according to her mother, Julie Gallego.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 6 June 2024
  • The European Space Agency announced this week that the completion of an independent study into an anomaly confirmed the Zefiro 40 nozzle must be redesigned.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
  • He’s enrolled in an independent study program through Oak Park Independent School, leaving time for surfing in the morning or whenever.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2024
  • Of all the changes the world is making to slow further warming, electric vehicle sales are the only category on track to meet climate goals, according to an exhaustive independent study.
    Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • An independent study published in June by researchers in Sweden found that giving the drug to alcohol-dependent rats reduced their alcohol consumption by 50 percent.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
  • An independent study published in August estimated the unexpected Covid exit caused 1.9 million excess deaths in two months.
    Bloomberg, Fortune Asia, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Many students devote themselves to independent study programs.
    Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
  • That category encompasses a variety of school models, from online schools to home school charters to hybrid charters that combine in-person support and independent study.
    Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Consumers enjoy communities, with 73% of consumers having an overall positive opinion of them, according to an independent study from Tint.
    Jia Rizvi, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
  • An independent study will also be needed to determine the real replenishment rate, a critical piece of information if Kenya is to exploit its new groundwater reserves sustainably.
    Brahma Chellaney, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2014
  • But an independent study released in 2021 that analyzed nearly two decades of data in Suffolk County found that not prosecuting low-level crimes was more successful in directing nonviolent offenders away from the criminal justice system.
    Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
  • The decision comes after independent study monitors concluded Allovir’s therapy was unlikely to achieve its efficacy goals.
    Damian Garde, STAT, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Enrico Giovannini, a former infrastructure minister, oversaw an independent study concluding that a bridge with pillars in the water—the idea discarded in ’86 because of strong currents—might be worth revisiting given new technologies.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2023

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