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Recent Examples of disquisition Anyone who knew Heff, even a little, had heard his manic, often brilliant disquisitions on literature, film and hip-hop and had listened to him rhapsodize about fast cars, James Dean, jazz and the horror novels of Clive Barker. Mark Oppenheimer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2024 During a Tuesday pop-in at a Democratic campaign office in New Hampshire, Biden embarked on one of his customary rambling disquisitions. Noah Rothman, National Review, 23 Oct. 2024 But, like most legal work, his cases typically turned not on disquisitions about the vision of the Founders but on narrow, technical details. David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2024 And in the same way that ageism against women was really a disquisition on femininity, the broad obsession with President Biden’s age speaks to our vision of masculinity. Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for disquisition
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Noun
  • The Treasury Department on Wednesday sent an inquiry to the IRS’s acting chief counsel, Andrew De Mello, asking the agency to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status, according to The Washington Post.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 17 Apr. 2025
  • While there have been a few inquiries, Iggy still hasn't found his forever home.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Each of those studies was itself a meta-analysis, based on an examination of data from a number of other prior independent studies.
    Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Anyone who doesn’t fulfill those traits won’t qualify for further examination.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Mark that date in your calendars, as The Alters will make the early summer season even hotter with a unique twist on space exploration and space colonization games.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • At the time when the Western European powers were engaging in exploration and expanding their territories into the New World, their eastern counterparts were busy defending their own borders.
    Danuta Hamlin, FOXNews.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Khalil finished his graduate studies at Columbia in December and is set to graduate in the spring.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • There's less water in the mantle beneath the farside of the moon than in the mantle on the nearside, according to studies of the precious lunar samples brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e 6 mission.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • He’s gained recognition for his research into Hepatitis C, which is prevalent in his home country of Nigeria.
    Pamela Jew, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Depression, anxiety, and mood disorders Scientific research shows that vitamin D may play a key role in balancing our mood and minimizing the risk of depression.
    Veronica Cristino and Hannah Coates, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025

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“Disquisition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disquisition. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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