All 8 Uses

thesis
in
Mountains Beyond Mountains
(Edited)

He wrote his senior honors thesis on "gender inequality and depression," no doubt in part because the medical anthropologists he knew were all psychiatrists.
Chpt 2.6

thesis = research paper
But he was making an exception on this day, and he climbed the hill to do some work on his Ph.D. thesis in anthropology.
Chpt 2.11
He was writing about its arrival in his thesis.
Chpt 2.11
In his thesis, he'd marshal a host of epidemiological data to show that AIDS had almost certainly come from North America to Haiti, and might well have been carried there by American and Canadian and Haitian American sex tourists, who could buy assignations for pittances in a Port-au-Prince slum called Carrefour.
Chpt 2.11
The thesis was to be an "interpretive anthropology of affliction," combining evidence from ethnography, history, epidemiology, and economics.
Chpt 2.11
His thesis won a prize, and a university press accepted it for publication.
Chpt 2.11 *
He got a fellowship to travel to Seoul and happened on an interesting story for his Ph.D. thesis in anthropology—it had to do with the Korean pharmaceutical industry.
Chpt 3.19
By the time he came back from Korea to Harvard, to continue medical school and write his thesis, he had grown bored and a little disgusted with what was known in academic circles as the politics of racial identity.
Chpt 3.19

Definitions:

(1) (thesis as in: the thesis of her editorial)
a proposition (unproved statement or theory) put forward as a premise for evaluation
(2) (thesis as in: her Master's thesis)
a formal and lengthy research paper advancing a new point of view -- usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
A comprehensive dictionary will have more specialized definitions of thesis that are used in such areas as music, poetry, and philosophy.