as in essays
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 dissertations
The full list of dissertations and theses is free to access – a resource for casual fans and researchers alike who want to learn more about the game.
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Tom Reinsfelder, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2026
The full list of dissertations and theses is free to access – a resource for casual fans and researchers alike who want to learn more about the game.
—Tom Reinsfelder, The Conversation, 9 June 2026
The plush red seats of the Concertgebouw's main auditorium are occupied by students cramming for upcoming exams and finishing dissertations as classical music fills the hall.
—ABC News, 26 Mar. 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
People would devote entire dissertations to developing techniques for distinguishing handwritten digits or for recognizing faces in images; then a deep-learning algorithm would digest the underlying data, discover the subtleties of the problem, and make those projects seem obsolete.
—James Somers, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Tom Reinsfelder, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2026
The full list of dissertations and theses is free to access – a resource for casual fans and researchers alike who want to learn more about the game.
—Tom Reinsfelder, The Conversation, 9 June 2026
The plush red seats of the Concertgebouw's main auditorium are occupied by students cramming for upcoming exams and finishing dissertations as classical music fills the hall.
—ABC News, 26 Mar. 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
People would devote entire dissertations to developing techniques for distinguishing handwritten digits or for recognizing faces in images; then a deep-learning algorithm would digest the underlying data, discover the subtleties of the problem, and make those projects seem obsolete.
—James Somers, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissertations
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At our junket interview for Netflix’s superhero comedy WONDERfools, however, Park provides miniature essays, often speaking for several minutes at a time, surprising us all.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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It’s composed largely of her brilliant, almost painfully intimate essays, originally published in The New Yorker, about the fraught dynamics between mothers and daughters.—
Hannah Jocelyn,
New Yorker,
17 June 2026
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Over the years, through the Sports Huddle and other venues, Andelman participated in some 13,000 radio broadcasts and over 1,200 television commentaries on channels 5 and 7 as well.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
15 June 2026
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Pastors normally take hours a week to examine the original language for their text, consult commentaries, develop illustrations and examples, and deliberate about practical applications.—
Christian B. Miller,
The Conversation,
4 June 2026
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One way to reduce the risk of this happening is to connect the AI model to a body of legal material, such as case law and treatises.—
Ellen Sheng,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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Skyhorse has since published a dozen or so books by Kennedy, including a memoir and several more anti-vaccine treatises.—
Tom Bartlett,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2026
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Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
24 June 2026
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Caine granted permission for an AI audio company to clone his voice for this project and other upcoming books and articles.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
23 June 2026
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As those expectations reset and the market got more comfortable that the theses were unchanged, both stocks and the broader AI group rebounded some from their earlier lows, pushing the S & P 500 firmly into the green.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
4 June 2026
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Over the years, many students at the ILLS have written their theses about the strange phenomena surrounding Cubs losing streaks.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2026
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“Dissertations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissertations. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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