TREAT (OF) Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

treat (of)

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Definition of treat (of)

as in to concern

to have (something) as a subject matter his paper treats of the ethical dilemmas that doctors face every day in the emergency rooms of urban hospitals

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Huang’s ideas concerned two formulas that appeared in Ramanujan’s letters and are now known as the Rogers-Ramanujan identities.

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026
OpenAI therefore leaves individual training rewards unchanged when monitors flag concerning samples.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026

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