Thesaurus results for DISSERTATION

dissertation

noun

as in thesis

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 Big data models learn by copying existing actions—how to fold clothes, write a dissertation, or create a video of a pig hoverboarding through space—by parsing previous examples and extrapolating similar behavior. —

Charlie Campbell, Time, 27 Jan. 2026 In 1991, a committee of scholars concluded that King had plagiarized passages in his dissertation for a doctoral degree while a student at Boston University. —

John Blake, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026 Blaire Bosley used her experience with chronic kidney disease to jump-start her dissertation research. —

Morayo Ogunbayo, AJC.com, 16 Jan. 2026 Then there’s the rapid advance of image models, and models that can write poetry, and fiction, and dissertations, and ads, and policy papers. —

John Werner, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for dissertation

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That could be good news for companies like Versant, which are banking on sports rights becoming available under the same thesis that Discovery Global would have had.

— Alex Sherman, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2026
The book is also partly an adaption of a thesis paper that Dapier wrote a decade ago as a graduate student of library sciences at University of Illinois.

— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026