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Throughout that first treatise, Locke excoriated the divine right of kings.—Time, 1 July 2025 And that this treatise describes an early form of cataract surgery that involves dislodging the lens of the eye with an oversized needle, all without anesthesia?—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 26 June 2025 Like Top Gun: Maverick, another recent Kosinski/Kruger collaboration, F1 is a treatise about its star in the form of a drama about going really fast.—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 26 June 2025 Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novel King’s Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on contemporary Japanese society.—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for treatise
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Etymology
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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