How to Use thesis in a Sentence

thesis

noun
  • We disagreed with the basic thesis of the report.
  • The book's central thesis is that propaganda influences the masses in important ways.
  • New evidence supports his thesis.
  • She wrote her thesis on Renaissance Nativity scenes.
  • The lyrics can be read, almost, as a thesis statement of the show.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2022
  • This involved carving away the parts of Smith’s thought that didn’t fit the thesis.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • Their thesis: The internet of the future would be built on the blockchain.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • That’s broad enough to impart only a vague sense of a thesis.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But the inclusion of this dialogue sets up the entire thesis of the show (and the game).
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 19 Jan. 2023
  • That’s always been the thesis statement of the show across two seasons.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Lyn, who was working on her PhD at the time, later reached out to him for help on her thesis.
    Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The thesis as the beginning is also the crux of Jen’s whole conflict.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Proponents of the technofeudalism thesis came from both the left and the right.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Data from some of the world’s major economies appears to back up Joshi’s thesis.
    Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 6 July 2023
  • Well, not my thesis film, my project-one film in Super 8, which was an 18-minute version of the opera Carmen.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2023
  • She's done a terrific job building out our thesis around the space.
    Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
  • This is because there's a sort of underlying thesis to the book, which was not just about cars.
    Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Or at the very least, a strong thesis that there is no ‘one,’ but instead a lot of different people who can fit the role.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The complaint cites recent defeats for the NCAA to bolster its thesis.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The thesis in favor of acquisition would be to pick up the asset on the cheap since it's lost so much value in the past year.
    Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
  • But the main thesis is: Any pause and later, cuts, in interest rates will be good for the cloud economy.
    R. Scott Raynovich, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • That was her senior thesis, her first pass at a story about life with Viva.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Mike’s thesis is even the most wealthy and the most privileged, really, [are] all just humans.
    Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Aviv’s thesis is that there can be no grand unifying theory of the mind.
    WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The motto became not just a section in her thesis, but also a call to action.
    Abby Vesoulis, Time, 11 May 2022
  • The young activist’s feelings about the past and the bravery of Lam and his comrades advances the film’s thesis of what Hong Kong means to its citizens.
    Richard Kuipers, Variety, 27 July 2022
  • The apparent plagiarism did not stop with the 2013 thesis.
    Bydaniel Garisto, science.org, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Draw them in with an engaging document, not a dry thesis ready to bore.
    April Rudin, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • One or another version of this thesis has seemed indisputable since the Nineties.
    Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The thesis proposed by Kevin Kelly is that a working creative only needs one thousand true fans willing to spend $100 on their art each year to earn a living.
    Howard Murphy, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2024

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