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n. A research paper that students write in order to complete the requirements for a doctorate; a dissertation.
Usage examples of "doctoral thesis".
All his daylight hours and many of his dinners were devoted to Moon problems, and often it was not till eleven at night that he found time to work on his doctoral thesis, and he [366] would sit hunched over his desk till two or three in the morning, when Rachel made him come to bed.
His doctoral thesis had examined the folly of Vietnam from the intelligence side of the equation, and it had been sufficiently controversial that his professor had forwarded it to Liz Elliot for comment.
His doctoral thesis (at the University of Iowa in 1967) was about Venus.
In 1959, a Cambodian exchange student at the Sor-bonne in Paris, Khieu Samphan, argued in a doctoral thesis that cities and towns were inhabited by “.
Her doctoral thesis had been immediately classified by World Security.
He was tenured at thirty, two years after his doctoral thesis was published and one year after his book, the Economics of Freedom, garnered a favorable Times review and started its record six-month run as number one on the National Association of Historians' recommended list.