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a written work that discusses a subject carefully and thoroughly
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a treatise on capitalism that is standard reading in university economics classes
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Recent Examples of treatises
One way to reduce the risk of this happening is to connect the AI model to a body of legal material, such as case law and treatises.
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Ellen Sheng, CNBC, 19 May 2026
Skyhorse has since published a dozen or so books by Kennedy, including a memoir and several more anti-vaccine treatises.
—Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2026
The text consists of 10 treatises on architecture, engineering and urban planning, and is the oldest surviving work written on the subject.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 28 Jan. 2026
The collection, now over 40,000 volumes, includes Greek and Arabic manuscripts, early cartographic works and rare scientific treatises gathered from across the Iberian world.
—Navya Verma, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026
Apart from its famous Devil portrait (more on that later), the codex contains an entire Bible, other historical texts, an encyclopedia, and medical treatises.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
Some of the earliest respect for the power of observation comes from the ancient Indus Valley, where close astronomical observations and unit measurements were required for ritual, and these traditions bore fruit in early treatises on astronomy, linguistics, and logic.
—Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
The ancient Romans and Greeks never really wrote treatises about how to lie well.
—JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
Ellen Sheng, CNBC, 19 May 2026
Skyhorse has since published a dozen or so books by Kennedy, including a memoir and several more anti-vaccine treatises.
—Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2026
The text consists of 10 treatises on architecture, engineering and urban planning, and is the oldest surviving work written on the subject.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 28 Jan. 2026
The collection, now over 40,000 volumes, includes Greek and Arabic manuscripts, early cartographic works and rare scientific treatises gathered from across the Iberian world.
—Navya Verma, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026
Apart from its famous Devil portrait (more on that later), the codex contains an entire Bible, other historical texts, an encyclopedia, and medical treatises.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
Some of the earliest respect for the power of observation comes from the ancient Indus Valley, where close astronomical observations and unit measurements were required for ritual, and these traditions bore fruit in early treatises on astronomy, linguistics, and logic.
—Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
The ancient Romans and Greeks never really wrote treatises about how to lie well.
—JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for treatises
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Tim Stelloh,
NBC news,
19 May 2026
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Cuba Press, a news agency with six typewriters located in the house of the poet Raúl Rivero, managed to report on the national hangover, as did Habana Press, an agency directed by Joaquín Torres, who dictated his articles over the phone to the exiles running Cubanet and Radio Martí.—
Abraham Jiménez Enoa,
The Dial,
19 May 2026
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That these schools sometimes took up immense tracts of land in early Los Angeles was probably another reason that many of them merged or disappeared; the values of real estate versus the values of gentlemanship was hardly a contest.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
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Recurrent lesions in the same location or the development of tunnels (sinus tracts) can indicate more advanced disease and may require surgical or higher-level intervention.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
18 May 2026
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Media discourses are considered processes for the collective social construction of reality in terms of frames and schemata.—
Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
12 May 2026
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By the mid-1960s, the school, located in the center of Harlem, was among the few schools in the United States to publish a yearbook directly engaged with the civil rights and Black Power discourses of the era.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Nov. 2025
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The outlet is said to have reviewed texts, diary entries, emails with friends and police communications.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
13 May 2026
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My father-in-law is the king of check-in texts as well as taking and sharing photos.—
Taylor Fox,
Travel + Leisure,
10 May 2026
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The researchers divided people into three groups, and asked them to write essays using either ChatGPT, Google’s search engine, or their own brains.—
Aytekin Tank,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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In the 1760s and ’70s, these two men collaborated with a secret radical network to counter the King—laying out the case for the restoration of British liberties in a series of newspaper essays under the pen name Junius.—
Danielle Allen,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
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Other bills could lead to new relief for small businesses in the future, with lawmakers endorsing the creation of studies and working groups that will look at things like supporting artificial intelligence use by small businesses and tourism.—
P.R. Lockhart,
Hartford Courant,
17 May 2026
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In a 2023 review published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, researchers analyzed more than four decades of reports of near-death experiences, involving more than 2,000 studies and nearly 500 individuals.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
16 May 2026
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