Thesaurus results for DISSERTATION

dissertation

noun

as in thesis

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 When Sandel joined the project in 2012, Errol had been about 10 years old and was the subject of his dissertation. —

Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2026 Chalker, posing as a curious junior researcher, might arrange to bump into the scientist in a hallway and ask a question about his long-ago dissertation. —

David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026 The plush red seats of the Concertgebouw's main auditorium are occupied by students cramming for upcoming exams and finishing dissertations as classical music fills the hall. —

ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026 Guilledo started as a smaller mention in Remollino’s dissertation work on working-class Filipino American boxers during the 1920s and ‘30s. —

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The thesis, as Zidni frames it, is that Indonesian cinema’s next phase cannot rely on individual producers’ persistence.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 May 2026
The long-tail currency problem, central to the Asia-and-Latin-America thesis, is solved with a hybrid approach.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026