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There have been treatises written and countless podcasts recorded about the apparent pleasure of piling on.
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Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture was not only a manual of the building arts but a treatise on how to extend and consolidate the Roman Empire, and lent itself all too well to the autocratic ambitions of Renaissance princes.
—Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books, 24 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture was not only a manual of the building arts but a treatise on how to extend and consolidate the Roman Empire, and lent itself all too well to the autocratic ambitions of Renaissance princes.
—Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books, 24 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
See All Example Sentences for treatise
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“Treatise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treatise. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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treatise
noun
trea·tise
ˈtrēt-əs 
: a book or article examining a subject carefully and completely
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