Case
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- When two or more law enforcement organizations both can lay claim on a particular criminal case or suspect they will rarely see eye-to-eye on the best way to prosecute/investigate the case.
Source: Jurisdiction Friction -
In this case it was also a means of buying time and distracting the warship's crew, given that their own wrecked ship, with armed torpedoes jutting out of its bow, lay directly in the warship's path.
Source: Married at Sea -
Noodle Incident: An account of how Fred and Nobby keep serendipitously stumbling onto major clues includes a case that was solved thanks to something that tried to lay its eggs in Nobby's nose.
Source: Discworld / Snuff
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Lay and Case. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/case/lay
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