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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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In navigating Barnes’s approach to African art, Gopnik relies heavily on the scholarship of Alison Boyd, author of a dissertation on Barnes and the director of research and interpretation at the Barnes Collection.
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Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 12 Mar. 2025
Someone has surely written a dissertation about the postcolonial symbolism of an animal with another animal’s tongue.
—Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2025
His doctoral dissertation, completed at George Washington University, focused on the role of students as change agents within higher education.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2025
Her dissertation was focused on the bacteria that causes tuberculosis.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Dissertation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissertation. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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