central thesis

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central
adjective
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/ˈsen.trəl/
us
/ˈsen.trəl/
in, at, from, or near the centre or most important part ...
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thesis
noun[C]
uk
/ˈθiː.sɪs/
us
/ˈθiː.sɪs/
a long piece of writing on a particular subject, especially one that is done for a higher college or ...
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(Definition ofcentralandthesisfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcentral thesis

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This credo amounts to thecentralthesisof the book.
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Nor does the value of the book depend on itscentralthesisalone.
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Even if true, this is not directly relevant to mycentralthesis.
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As a whole, however, the study cannot fully sustain the application of itscentralthesis.
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This contrarian view could go a long way to undermine thecentralthesisof this book.
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The main results underline mycentralthesis, and are found in the following section of this article.
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That these various matters are all variations on a single underlying theme is thecentralthesisof this book, and to elaborate this theme is the authors' main business.
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Acentralthesisof the target article is that evolutionary pressure can cause certain physical characteristics of the world to become internalized by the representational system.
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Mycentralthesisis that the emergence of national health insurance conforms to a developmental logic that is as much historical as it is political and institutional.
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Such a policy, adopting hercentralthesis, should accommodate a changing demography and the associated new family forms.
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Thecentralthesisof the book, namely, that anticolonial poetry "subsumed the political while retaining the poetical" (p. 231), is fairly modest.
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Such a policy, adopting hercentralthesis, should accommodate the changing demographic and the new family forms that are arising as a result.
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Hamburger turns to hiscentralthesis' respecting ' an establishment.
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If they are right, then we can rest content with the arguments of the previous sections; those arguments will suffice to prove mycentralthesis.
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If thecentralthesisis correct, then psychological game theory, in some form or another, is needed to provide a more complete and accurate understanding of strategic interaction.
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The study takes as itscentralthesisthe idea of baptism as a reconciliation of one's temporal finitude with cosmic conditions, the latter understood to be eternal.
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These data provide additional evidence for thecentralthesisof this paper that the documented meters are surface variants of a limited number of abstract templates.
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