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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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Modern scholarship on its formative role in women’s lives, and vice versa, took an important turn in 1980, when two young historians published landmark books on the subject—second books, because each had been told that a dissertation on a topic quite so pots-and-pans wouldn’t do.
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Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
There’s Miles, a scholar of Russian folktales who can’t focus on his dissertation; his wife Kate, an English professor grappling with an illness; their two children, Olive and Wesley; and their dog Giuseppe.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
While Houston’s mention was more of an epilogue than a dissertation on the state of the room, the preseason star is firmly part of the pass rush story through five weeks.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Oct. 2025
Weeping delights in the exalted, the sublime, the magnificent — a symphony, a vista, megafauna, even a brilliant dissertation.
—Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
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Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
There’s Miles, a scholar of Russian folktales who can’t focus on his dissertation; his wife Kate, an English professor grappling with an illness; their two children, Olive and Wesley; and their dog Giuseppe.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
While Houston’s mention was more of an epilogue than a dissertation on the state of the room, the preseason star is firmly part of the pass rush story through five weeks.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Oct. 2025
Weeping delights in the exalted, the sublime, the magnificent — a symphony, a vista, megafauna, even a brilliant dissertation.
—Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissertation
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Despite some investors worrying about an AI bubble, the gusher of data center spending has not relented, supporting our thesis in Cisco.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
9 Nov. 2025
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The study, published last month in Nature, originated from a curious observation made by Adam Grippin, a radiation oncologist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, while working on his PhD thesis at the University of Florida.—
Lisa Jarvis,
Twin Cities,
8 Nov. 2025
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But as Sargeant argues, drawing on an essay by the conservative writer Felix James Miller, treating a husband as only a provider reduces him to a fungible funding source, rather than an integral part of a family with his own unique contributions to make.—
Anna Louie Sussman,
The Atlantic,
7 Nov. 2025
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Dakota Johnson, a Valentino ambassador who also stars in the campaign, sung McRae's praises in an accompanying essay.—
Michelle Lee,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Dissertation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissertation. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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