Sample Sentences for
dissertation
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    I read his dissertation on the evolution of microbial pathogens….  (source)
    dissertation = lengthy academic paper
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    His professor had said Tate could finish graduate school in the next three years because he'd been conducting his research for his PhD dissertation all through undergraduate and it was nearly complete.  (source)
    dissertation = a scholarly paper required for an advanced academic degree
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    She's working on her doctorate and she'll be defending her dissertation this year.  (source)
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    Tererai has finished her course work and is completing a dissertation about AIDS programs among the poor in Africa.  (source)
    dissertation = a scholarly paper required for an advanced academic degree
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    Her hand is the first one up; her answers are usually complete dissertations; her projects are always turned in early and used as weapons against the rest of the class.†  (source)
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    What had impressed them, said the interviewers — there were two of them, a woman and a man — was his senior dissertation on self-help books of the twentieth century.  (source)
    dissertation = a scholarly paper required for an academic degree
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    The trader misconstrued the tenor of the discourse; but the missionary, inured by years of humorless dissertations, soon put him right.†  (source)
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    It sounded too much like a doctoral dissertation, and he had already done one of those.†  (source)
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    In one of his rambling dissertations on what's good and what's bad for Yamacraw, he intimated that his formidable array of hardware was added insurance that the natives would never venture into his compound uninvited.†  (source)
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    They all knew that her field work in quest of dissertation would soon take her beyond the Web, into the Outback where time-debt ate away at the lives and memories of those left behind.†  (source)
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    There were long dissertations written in long hand; some were political and others dealt with the history of art.†  (source)
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    When he was twenty-seven he took his master's degree with the dissertation 'On the Concept of Irony.'†  (source)
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    And here be it said, that whenever it has been convenient to consult one in the course of these dissertations, I have invariably used a huge quarto edition of Johnson, expressly purchased for that purpose; because that famous lexicographer's uncommon personal bulk more fitted him to compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author like me.†  (source)
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