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Definition
a lengthy academic paper — especially a scholarly work required for an advanced academic degree
- 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.p. 245.8
dissertation = a scholarly paper required for an academic degree
- He'd turned that paper topic into his senior dissertation, later.p. 196.3
- In your dissertation.p. 246.3
There are no more uses of "dissertation" in Oryx and Crake.
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