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dissertation

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Definition of dissertation

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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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Recent Examples of dissertation The 8-year age gap isn’t a big deal to the characters—and the book explains that since Adam isn’t on Olive’s dissertation committee, their relationship isn’t an academic integrity violation, per Slate. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 25 Sep. 2026 The AfD’s Weidel lived in China for six years, speaks Mandarin, and wrote her doctoral dissertation about China’s pension system. — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2026 But in his 2021 doctoral dissertation, Martínez-Zoroa pioneered analytic techniques that don’t rely on computers at all. — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2026 Zavataro is also a PhD candidate at the University of Reading in England, with a dissertation focused on museum audience engagement. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 27 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for dissertation

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Michael Monaghan, portfolio manager at Founder ETFs, says that's part of the investment thesis.

— Jordan Novet, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026
Written in Latin, the theses were relatively tentative in tone, consisting of 95 short propositions—most just a sentence or two.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Oct. 2026

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His essay came after an employee resigned over fears that AI could pose a threat to humanity, and follows reports from Anthropic and its rivals of AI models hacking into other companies during testing.

— Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
The science writer Ann Finkbender wrote a charming essay about understanding this principle of life in Last Word on Nothing.

— Shayla Love, Vox, 25 Oct. 2026

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