as in monograph
a written work that discusses a subject carefully and thoroughly
—often + on
a treatise on capitalism that is standard reading in university economics classes
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Recent Examples of treatise
His work is not a treatise on structural inevitability but an exploration of how human frailty, political misjudgment and moral decay can combine to unleash catastrophe.
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Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 15 Apr. 2025
Then, in 1637, the French mathematician René Descartes published his treatise Discourse on the Method (opens a new tab).
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
The best recent commentaries on Marx’s nineteenth-century treatise register the uncanniness of twenty-first-century capitalism.
—Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
In the treatise, the author writes that the poem, which pertains to the birth of the gods, should be taken as an allegory rather than literally.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
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Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 15 Apr. 2025
Then, in 1637, the French mathematician René Descartes published his treatise Discourse on the Method (opens a new tab).
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
The best recent commentaries on Marx’s nineteenth-century treatise register the uncanniness of twenty-first-century capitalism.
—Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
In the treatise, the author writes that the poem, which pertains to the birth of the gods, should be taken as an allegory rather than literally.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for treatise
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The exhibition was catalyzed by the recent publication of Pulp Hope 2, the sequel to Pope’s hard-to-find 2007 monograph.—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Trained initially as an economist, Salgado spent much of his long career documenting the effects of heavy industry on the environment, from a monograph on gold mining in his native Brazil to a book on oil fires in Kuwait.—
Max Saltman,
CNN Money,
23 May 2025
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In 2023 and the first months of 2024, his name cropped up in a lot of excitable articles in the Rio de Janeiro press.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
27 June 2025
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This article contains light spoilers from Squid Game Season 2 that impact the plot of Season 3.—
Sara Merican,
Deadline,
26 June 2025
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Specifically, their brain scans revealed lower levels of fractional anisotropy, which is a measure used to assess how coherent and structured these white matter tracts are.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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More The proposal mandates the nomination of tracts within 30 days, then every 60 days until the multi-million-acre goal is met, all without hearings, debate or public input.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
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But there’s an even more troubling dimension that has gone almost unmentioned in public discourse and probably unnoticed by most observers: the racial wealth transfer.—
Jennifer Hochschild,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2025
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Amid an uptick in threats to judges, former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned that the current hostility in America's political discourse imperils freedom and democracy.—
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
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On Monday, Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony welcomed the sheriffs to the county, while FBI director Kash Patel and Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche held a discussion on how local law enforcement can work with the federal government.—
Shira Moolten,
Sun Sentinel,
24 June 2025
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There is also discussion of the $10 billion Walter’s TWG Global holding company recently received from Mubadala Capital, an investment arm of Mubadala Investment Company, the sovereign wealth fund based in the United Arab Emirates, and what that transaction portends for Walter’s next move.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
24 June 2025
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The evening opened with a conversation between co-editors Dina Aronson and Dina Alvarez—both of whom also contributed essays—moderated by another story contributor, Julie Flakstad, founder of the Midlife Truth Project and co-host of the limited series podcast of the same name.—
Emily Cegielski,
Flow Space,
25 June 2025
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Hosted by Jordan Kisner, author of the essay collection Thin Places.—
Thresholds
June 25,
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25 June 2025
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The study area covers the high seas of the whole Atlantic Ocean, from 65 degrees South latitude to 65 degrees North latitude and from 90 West longitude to 25 East longitude.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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Both are also Black art forms that require incredible discipline and a lifetime of study but which, when performed at their highest levels, encourage a freedom of expression that can take the audience into an ecstatic state.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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“Treatise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/treatise. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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