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An affirmation or proposition to be proved or one advanced without proof especially in contrast with a negation. (plural)

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Usage examples (37)
  • Noun, : He vigorously defended his thesis on the causes of war
  • Each of these theses is falsifiable, and testable.
  • She saying that the intelligent folks in theses state votes don't count because we're not uneducated.
  • By this Decree the tenets of religious evolutionism were laid before them in short theses and condemned.
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