The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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“We don’t have to be in things that are simply thesis statements about us as people. … To me, that’s really the real achievement here: to actually make something that feels genuinely new.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
Create thesis statements that are manageable and sufficiently specific.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Despite my readying body, I was surprised when my water broke the second day of a fall semester when I was supposed to be teaching college students how to form thesis statements.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2022
These non-answers rub the dazzle from Gladwell’s clever thesis statements, until they all begin to look like dullish intuition.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2013
People too often speak in thesis statements: “The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out that their memories are lies.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2013
