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thesis statement

The thesis statement is a summary of the main point of a paper, a summary of the argument a paper contains, or a summary of the position that the paper is going to take.

(noun)

An example of a thesis statement is a sentence in a paper that explains the author's stance on an issue that he goes on to support in the paper.

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