as in monograph
a written work that discusses a subject carefully and thoroughly
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a treatise on capitalism that is standard reading in university economics classes
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Man and His Works A scientific, readable treatise on cultural anthropology, by a leading authority, professor at Northwestern.
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Melville J. Herskovits, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2024
To enforce his personal rule of law, James could censor speech, the press, legal treatises, and the theater.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
Having said that, testing did show that bad actors could trick the AI into producing discriminatory content such as a treatise on why individuals with intellectual disabilities should not be allowed to vote by simply manipulating the phrasing of the prompt.
—Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
Their emotional triggers change, and a treatise that once would have induced them to attack their neighbors will, a month or a year later, seem laughable.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
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Melville J. Herskovits, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2024
To enforce his personal rule of law, James could censor speech, the press, legal treatises, and the theater.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
Having said that, testing did show that bad actors could trick the AI into producing discriminatory content such as a treatise on why individuals with intellectual disabilities should not be allowed to vote by simply manipulating the phrasing of the prompt.
—Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
Their emotional triggers change, and a treatise that once would have induced them to attack their neighbors will, a month or a year later, seem laughable.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for treatise
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Design and fashion monographs are artfully stacked on shelves, and there’s an inviting hum of activity as the smartly dressed hotel staff bring out tea to welcome you, or busy themselves with laying the table for dinner service.Liam Hess, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
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Into the liquor boxes go monographs about land use, river systems, the market forms of peripheral economies: books a respectable geographer can be relied upon to own.Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
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Listen to this article BOULDER — Shedeur Sanders tripped over Travis Hunter’s Heisman.Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
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This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine, an independent journalistic endeavor from Annual Reviews.Martin J. Kernan, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2024
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Hawkins noted that Crain had strep and a urinary tract infection, wrote up a prescription and discharged her.Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
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Derek’s oldest son, Dallas, was rushed into emergency surgery at Valley Children’s Healthcare in 2013 because of intestinal malrotation, a potentially life-threatening condition that affected his blood supply and intestinal tract, and spent several weeks there.Jeff Fedotin, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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The ability to drag fringe ideas and theories into mainstream political discourse has long been a hallmark of X, even back when it was known as Twitter.Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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If a political conversation is causing conflict or hindering productivity, step in and remind everyone of the company’s guidelines for respectful discourse.Stephen Nalley, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile, discussions with bosses and VIPs will be productive.Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 13 Nov. 2024
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The company is currently in discussions with financing sources to secure short-term funding to continue operations beyond December 2024.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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In this braided essay collection, the author traces her legacy of cultural inheritance, colonization and her journey toward becoming a witch, including those cultural touch points that have shaped her.Lizz Schumer, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Her essays have appeared in The Globe and Mail and Elephant Journal.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Those moves were then reversed by the Trump administration but later reinstated by the Biden administration, which also released an accompanying U.S. Forest Service study that said hard-rock mining within the Rainy River Watershed could pose an environmental threat to the BWCAW.Jimmy Lovrien, Twin Cities, 13 Nov. 2024
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Rabinovich, a distinguished Israeli historian of the modern Middle… The War for Lebanon, 1970-1983 This is partly a history of Lebanon's breakdown and civil war, partly a study of why and how Israel went to war in 1982.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
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“Treatise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/treatise. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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