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Conservative thinkers will write treatises on the pernicious influence of radical intellectuals and call for a new type of American university.
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Her movie reviews were cultural criticism, sociological treatise, personal essay.
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Where Dr. Seuss had colorful characters and catchy rhyme schemes, the Bank of England has dry treatises on inflation without a single rhyme or clever turn of phrase in sight.
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In the decades since, he has been venerated with a statue, an annual award at West Point and even a Malcolm Gladwell treatise on human potential.
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While at the Vatican, Trump received from Pope Francis a copy of his 2015 papal treatise that links fossil fuels to global warming.
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There are third-act revelations that round out the story beautifully, making the movie more than just a didactic dramatic treatise on the transgender issue.
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Though Avid Reader is a memoir and not a treatise on editing, in his account of his years in publishing, first at Simon and Schuster, then for many years at Alfred A. Knopf, a reader finds passing remarks that illuminate the craft.
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Google had graciously steered me to a treatise on the medicinal attributes of mugwort, which is a type of Artemisia, and many other fascinating plants.
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Origin and Etymology of treatise
Middle English tretis, from Anglo-French tretiz, alteration of tretez, traitet, from Medieval Latin tractatus, from Latin tractare to treat, handle
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playDefinition of treatise for English Language Learners
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: a book, article, etc., that discusses a subject carefully and thoroughly
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