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Recent Examples of derivate While Apple shares were up more than 4% in trading Friday, all of the derivate plays were trading in the red. — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 1 May 2026 With unique enough lore and a unique style, Saxon avoids making a derivate fable. — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025 The weed contains two psoralen derivates that can darken sick upon exposure to UV light. — Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2024 This, combined with new and streamlined venues for retail investors to participate in the growing demand for a variety of spot, derivate, and synthetic funds and indices is set to continue push crypto ETF access to new heights. — Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for derivate
Noun
  • Prediction market platforms say event contracts, no matter the category, are a financial derivative.
    — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2026
  • But increasingly, Americans are turning to newer, more potent products made with a semi-synthetic kratom derivative, 7-hydroxymitragynine, or 7-OH.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 30 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Language itself was an obsession, with many family dinners ending with Davis pulling out his unabridged Oxford English Dictionary to share the derivation of a word.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Many forms of divination have been practiced historically in Africa, but divination techniques found in Hoodoo have sometimes been of European derivation; for instance, Hoodoo frequently employs cartomancy, or divination using playing cards.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026

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“Derivate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/derivate. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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