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dissertation

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a long piece of writing about a particular subject that is done to earn an advanced degree at a university He wrote his dissertation on an obscure 16th-century poet.

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Recent Examples of dissertation Using crowdsourcing techniques, VroniPlag Wiki in Germany and Dissernet in Russia have exposed numerous instances of plagiarism by public servants in their dissertations and academic publications. — Roger J. Kreuz, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026 Imagine handing in a dissertation and your advisor sees the little red flag. — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026 According to Cofnas, the excerpts were flagged by a plagiarism detection software, which found similarities with another scholar’s 2009 dissertation. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026 Parry, aged only 21, sketched out his theory in a master’s dissertation. — Literary Hub, 17 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for dissertation

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By retaining too much of the play’s rhetorical architecture, the film turns a provocative dramatic premise into something closer to an illustrated thesis.

— Beandrea July, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2026
Her thesis is that improving women’s midlife health keeps women in power at a pivotal moment in their lives and careers.

— Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026

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The center of the essay is a list of standards Berry applies to technology.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
China’s minister of state security wrote in a weekend essay that AI posed six principal risks from his perspective, including threatening the security of the country’s political regime, digital infrastructure, public order, and national defense.

— Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 14 Sep. 2026

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