Recent Examples on the WebMan and His Works A scientific, readable treatise on cultural anthropology, by a leading authority, professor at Northwestern.—Melville J. Herskovits, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2024 To enforce his personal rule of law, James could censor speech, the press, legal treatises, and the theater.—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024 Having said that, testing did show that bad actors could trick the AI into producing discriminatory content such as a treatise on why individuals with intellectual disabilities should not be allowed to vote by simply manipulating the phrasing of the prompt.—Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 Their emotional triggers change, and a treatise that once would have induced them to attack their neighbors will, a month or a year later, seem laughable.—Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for treatise
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Etymology
Middle English tretis, from Anglo-French tretiz, alteration of tretez, traitet, from Medieval Latin tractatus, from Latin tractare to treat, handle
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