dissertation
noun
dis·ser·ta·tion
ˌdi-sər-ˈtā-shən 
: an extended usually written treatment of a subject
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He wrote his dissertation on an obscure 16th-century poet.
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Weeping delights in the exalted, the sublime, the magnificent — a symphony, a vista, megafauna, even a brilliant dissertation.
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Harold even wrote a dissertation and then a novel on exceptional men punished by a mediocre society — beliefs deployed earnestly, yet interpreted by his (minimal) public as satire.
—Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
Mañón, who went to culinary school and worked as a chef before becoming a mental-health counselor, is now writing his doctoral dissertation on cooking therapy.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
Baker returned to school in the depths of the Great Depression to earn a library science degree and began to hunt for a job in 1934, an effort hampered, Regina Sierra Carter writes in her dissertation on Baker, by her race, gender, marital status, and the economy.
—April White, JSTOR Daily, 15 Sep. 2025
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Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
Harold even wrote a dissertation and then a novel on exceptional men punished by a mediocre society — beliefs deployed earnestly, yet interpreted by his (minimal) public as satire.
—Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
Mañón, who went to culinary school and worked as a chef before becoming a mental-health counselor, is now writing his doctoral dissertation on cooking therapy.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
Baker returned to school in the depths of the Great Depression to earn a library science degree and began to hunt for a job in 1934, an effort hampered, Regina Sierra Carter writes in her dissertation on Baker, by her race, gender, marital status, and the economy.
—April White, JSTOR Daily, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Dissertation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dissertation. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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dissertation
noun
dis·ser·ta·tion
ˌdis-ər-ˈtā-shən
: a long usually written treatment of a subject
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