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The phrase "a working thesis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a preliminary statement or proposition that is subject to further development and refinement in the context of an academic paper or research project.
Example: "In my research paper, I will present a working thesis that explores the impact of social media on mental health."
Alternatives: "a provisional thesis" or "a preliminary thesis".
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But one study compared memory test scores of older Americans to older Europeans; the later-working Americans' scores, on average, were higher, which is consistent with a working thesis of "use it or lose it," that is, that the mental stimulation of work helps stave off cognitive decline.
What was just a working thesis a few months ago, he said, has been validated by new information about intense recruiting, training and a focus on chemical weapons.
"I ain't scared of shit but my baby mama / No I ain't a punk, I just hate the drama," he raps, and that's a working thesis for his outlook.
Now, as a management consultant, I help business leaders make decisions through a process strikingly akin to the historian's: form a working thesis, identify the relevant data, analyze that data, adapt the thesis accordingly, and then figure out a way to communicate it convincingly.
Most of the reporters come with a working thesis that accelerators are a response by colleges to the scores of students who drop out of school to start a business.
Consider it a "working thesis" that's subject to change.
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The official working thesis remains that it was an accident.
In general, Hegel saw history as a working out of opposing forces thesis and antithesis which interact and form a third force, known as the synthesis.
There was a senior working on a thesis.
In the mid-1990s he lived in Daly City for a year and a half, working on his Ph.D. thesis in anthropology.
Mr. Keating's brother-in-law, an engineer, told Marvel that he was a student working on a master's thesis on light bulb manufacture.
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