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.
  • If the cruelty was the point of the first Trump term, then the chaos is the thesis of the second.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • At the time, cloning was a hot topic, and Gilbert wrote his master’s thesis on it.
    Christine Kenneally, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
  • That’s always been the thesis statement of the show across two seasons.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 15 Sep. 2024
  • But if the thesis is faulty, there is value in the exercise.
    Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • That is the culmination of one’s work in a grad program, to get to have a thesis show.
    Deborah Vankin Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021
  • One sets out the basic thesis of the book, and the other is a summary of Koonin’s background.
    Steven E. Koonin, National Review, 4 May 2021
  • The thesis for the study is based, in part, on the current themes dominating the present job market.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • The great joke, and the central thesis, is that the film can accomplish that by using only spare parts.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 28 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • To be sure, Azure and AI remain key to our investment thesis.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 5 Nov. 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
  • The theses reflected Luther’s belief that the pope and the Catholic Church were preying on the poor by selling them indulgences, taking their money for a false promise that their sins would be forgiven.
    Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
  • William Blair analyst Dylan Carden reiterated the firm’s On investment thesis in a note published after the earnings results.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 4 Mar. 2025

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