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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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The stablecoin dissertation adds another wrinkle to the case for easier policy.
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Jeff Cox, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2025
The paper also has covered allegations that IU President Pamela Whitten plagiarized parts of her dissertation, with the most recent story running in September.
—Todd Richmond, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025
Dantzig’s work would provide the basis for his doctoral dissertation and, decades later, inspiration for the film Good Will Hunting.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 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
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Jeff Cox, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2025
The paper also has covered allegations that IU President Pamela Whitten plagiarized parts of her dissertation, with the most recent story running in September.
—Todd Richmond, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025
Dantzig’s work would provide the basis for his doctoral dissertation and, decades later, inspiration for the film Good Will Hunting.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissertation
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Apatow doesn’t seem to have come to this film with a thesis and a story and an outline already in hand.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2026
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Shares have been on a tear despite no new updates on expanding the company's schizophrenia drug, Cobenfy, to treat Alzheimer's — a key to our investment thesis.—
Paulina Likos,Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
22 Jan. 2026
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In an essay published by the U-T in July, Peters wrote that America needs more progress and less process.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2026
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The instructional promise of each episode was a bit, a starting point for discursive, funny, intermittently personal mini-essays that always started in Wilson’s beloved New York, but could and did make their way anywhere.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Dissertation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissertation. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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