Sample Sentences for
thesis
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thesis as in:  the thesis of her editorial

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    What is the thesis of your paper.
    thesis = theory or statement to be evaluated
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    The Eleatics had put forward a claim, and Hegel called a standpoint like that a thesis.  (source)
    thesis = an unproved statement put forward as a premise for discussion
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    I was sixteen the first time I read it, and though I didn't fully understand it all, I grasped the core thesis.  (source)
    thesis = presented theory
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    But once alone, having torn through the first fifty pages of Herr Flammenhescher's little monograph, Mikhail would leap to his feet and start pacing from corner to corner in order to voice his fervid agreement or furious dissent with the author's thesis, his style, or his use of punctuation.  (source)
    thesis = theory being evaluated
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    D. theses or the kind of academic posturing that Mr. Davies makes such great, good fun of?†  (source)
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    Tell me the thesis, so that I may apply your knowledge as you go on.  (source)
    thesis = theory
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    which attracted people indifferent to the theses of Communism to the Communist parade.†  (source)
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    To put my thesis in a nutshell: the war-dance has been replaced by the waltz.  (source)
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    Somewhere inside I know all of those things, and there is no need of an argument, or a synopsis, or an outline (outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses).†  (source)
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    And after considerable thought, I came to doubt Moody's thesis.  (source)
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    She spent that night on the Internet, reading articles and theses on the psychopathology of sadism.†  (source)
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    He said he wasn't sure, but the thesis on Quality appeared to turn into an anti-Aristotelian thesis.  (source)
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    Dr. Mansour would explain these interventions of his by saying "I always pass on my experience to my children," and it was in exactly the same fatherly spirit that Dr. Mansour was accustomed to destroy the hopes of the students whose theses he was supervising.†  (source)
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thesis as in:  her Master's thesis

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Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan's undergraduate thesis was a detailed history of the rise and fall of New York's Socialist Party in the early 20th Century.
thesis = a formal and lengthy research paper advancing a new point of view
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    Her thesis studies how social media has made the country more divisive.
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    Justice Kagan's undergraduate thesis concluded: "The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism's decline, still wish to change America. American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope."
    thesis = research paper
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    As soon as he completed his thesis, "An Analysis of Conical Helices", he transferred to Hughes's big California operation, where the real action was, eager to make his mark in the race for space.  (source)
    thesis = a formal and lengthy research paper
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    And, with his help, by spring I have a 112 page thesis, researched, footnoted, documented, and neatly bound in black leather.  (source)
    thesis = research paper
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    ...they wouldn't count toward my MFA thesis.  (source)
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    …and that he'd written his PhD thesis on tuatara molecular evolution rates,  (source)
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    He would also help me begin my Master's thesis on Thomas Hardy.  (source)
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    Kierkegaard had written a master of arts thesis on Socrates.  (source)
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    While reading for my master's thesis, I'd been surprised to discover echoes of Mormon theology in the great philosophers of the nineteenth century.  (source)
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    "Mike," said Vince formally, "I'd like to introduce you to Patricia Killian, my thesis advisor at MIT."  (source)
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    But during his brief time as a graduate student, he always kept a respectable distance from his thesis advisor.  (source)
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    ...and did a senior thesis called "The Interaction of the Ethnographic, Financial, and Paramilitary Dimensions of Competition in Certain Markets."  (source)
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    He was surprised to see him there, in the kingdom of the elect, but Dr. Olivella reminded him that he was the son of the Minister of Health and was preparing a thesis in forensic medicine.  (source)
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