treatise

as in monograph
a written work that discusses a subject carefully and thoroughly
often + on
a treatise on capitalism that is standard reading in university economics classes

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Recent Examples of treatise There have been treatises written and countless podcasts recorded about the apparent pleasure of piling on. Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 4 May 2025 Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture was not only a manual of the building arts but a treatise on how to extend and consolidate the Roman Empire, and lent itself all too well to the autocratic ambitions of Renaissance princes. Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books, 24 Apr. 2025 His work is not a treatise on structural inevitability but an exploration of how human frailty, political misjudgment and moral decay can combine to unleash catastrophe. Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 15 Apr. 2025 Then, in 1637, the French mathematician René Descartes published his treatise Discourse on the Method (opens a new tab). Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for treatise
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Noun
  • The exhibition was catalyzed by the recent publication of Pulp Hope 2, the sequel to Pope’s hard-to-find 2007 monograph.
    Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • Trained initially as an economist, Salgado spent much of his long career documenting the effects of heavy industry on the environment, from a monograph on gold mining in his native Brazil to a book on oil fires in Kuwait.
    Max Saltman, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
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  • Former reporter Gina Kaufman contributed to this article.
    Amy Huschka, Freep.com, 8 July 2025
  • The decision from Meuser, who declined to comment for this article, reflects the challenging environment Republicans could face in the upcoming midterms in competitive states such as Pennsylvania and against popular Democrats such as Shapiro.
    Will McDuffie, ABC News, 8 July 2025
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  • That could negate the need for costly and invasive methods of GI tract investigation – like endoscopy and computerized tomography (CT) – that can only be used in hospitals.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 12 July 2025
  • The hospital also had a failing score for urinary tract infections from catheters.
    Scott Schwebke, Oc Register, 12 July 2025
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  • Reid proudly identifies as a feminist, using her platform to normalize the term in public discourse and deter misconceptions surrounding gender equality.
    Karl Moore, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • After 10 years of Trump dominating and altering the nation’s political discourse, Democrats’ language is now changing.
    Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 6 July 2025
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  • Trade discussions usually pick up in the next few weeks around the upcoming draft and All-Star Game, and baseball operations president Erik Neander and his staff should have plenty to talk about.
    Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 July 2025
  • The discussion later in this article reviews many, but far from all, of the tax changes contained in the BBB.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
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  • Other members of the Murtaugh family included dad Jimmy Murtaugh, played by Levy, 78, plus Carmen Electra, Shawn Roberts, Jaime King and Robbie Amell, among others Stoner opened up about their sexuality in a candid first-person essay published in Teen Vogue in 2018.
    Nicholas Rice, People.com, 6 July 2025
  • Plus, blue books do little to prevent AI misuse on homework, group projects or take-home essays.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2025
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  • The bones, which date back to an interglacial period in which Neanderthals lived, were from animals like red deer and horses, according to a study published on July 2 in Science Advances.
    Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2025
  • The collapse of tropical forests was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming that followed, according to a new study published July 2 in the British journal Nature Communications.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 5 July 2025

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