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Dissertations can be written about what these comparative numbers say about, first, the long-term strength of the U.S. economy and, second, whether its majestic growth in wealth is distributed fairly.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

The grandest of the Christ Church faction’s attacks, Dr Bentley’s Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and the Fables of Æsop, Examin’d—better known as Boyle Against Bentley—is a book-length character assassination of the king’s librarian.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2022

Dissertations will surely be written about the multiple meanings of hair in this novel.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2019

“As an independent nation,” he declared in his 1789 book Dissertations on the English Language, “our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government.”

From Time • May 12, 2015

His writings against Malebranche were collected under the title Dissertations sur la recherche de la v�rit�, 1693.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various