thesis

In a sentence

Six example sentences with thesis, each labelled with its topic.

• Pirenne's thesis holds that Islamic expansion, not the Germanic invasions, ended the ancient economy of the Mediterranean.

  History

• His whole lecture rests on one thesis, that promises bind us even when keeping them costs more than we expected.

  Philosophy

• The columnist advances a familiar thesis about housing shortages, then offers three anecdotes and no figures to support it.

  Economics

• The fund's thesis is that regional banks are underpriced, and every purchase this year followed from that single premise.

  Finance

• The founders' thesis, that small clinics will pay for scheduling software, gets tested by every feature they ship.

  Startups

• The plaintiff's thesis that the roof leaked because of poor design collapsed once the builder produced the inspection photos.

  Law

Found in these word lists

• New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)Authoritative
• Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
• GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized

Each source is a published word list that contains thesis. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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