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a long piece of writing about a particular subject that is done to earn an advanced degree at a university
He wrote his dissertation on an obscure 16th-century poet.
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The son of Indian immigrants, Iyer, 53, wrote his dissertation in 1998 on the music of the African diaspora, and now holds a joint appointment at Harvard University in the Department of Music and the Department of African and African American Studies.
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Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
Assad's son, Hafez junior, recently successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in mathematics at Moscow State University.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
This humble dessert’s stature in the Americana canon is an idea that Richard Linklater’s new rom-com-noir–philosophy dissertation, Hit Man, toys with in its final moments.
—Chris Stanton, Vulture, 14 June 2024
In 2012, after finishing her dissertation, Starbird joined UW and started to look at rumors—her preferred term for what others would often class as misinformation or disinformation.
—science.org, 30 Oct. 2024
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Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
Assad's son, Hafez junior, recently successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in mathematics at Moscow State University.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
This humble dessert’s stature in the Americana canon is an idea that Richard Linklater’s new rom-com-noir–philosophy dissertation, Hit Man, toys with in its final moments.
—Chris Stanton, Vulture, 14 June 2024
In 2012, after finishing her dissertation, Starbird joined UW and started to look at rumors—her preferred term for what others would often class as misinformation or disinformation.
—science.org, 30 Oct. 2024
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