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to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information
from the summit, he was able to derive his location from the position of several prominent landmarks
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Recent Examples of deriving
The third touchdown is still the most telling, deriving purely from a relationship between quarterback and receiver.
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Kansas City Star, 31 Oct. 2025
Both sides think more like lawyers than historians, deriving their satisfaction from scoring points as advocates for their respective clients.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Specifically, Larsson was searching for dentalium shells—the long, tubular shells deriving from dentaliums, a type of marine mollusk.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2025
In the years since, Wickelgren, Kass and others have reframed a host of other enumerative problems using motivic homotopy theory, deriving the relevant quadratic forms in various number systems.
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025
About half of the company’s sales are direct-to-consumer, deriving from the stores as well as Rails’ e-commerce site.
—Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
The underlying metrics were also robust, with a significant portion of revenue deriving from subscriptions, which ensure stable, recurring cash flow.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Pollen is naturally released in bulk from seed-producing plants, and deriving paper from it requires only a few simple steps.
—Sandy Ong, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
Kansas City Star, 31 Oct. 2025
Both sides think more like lawyers than historians, deriving their satisfaction from scoring points as advocates for their respective clients.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Specifically, Larsson was searching for dentalium shells—the long, tubular shells deriving from dentaliums, a type of marine mollusk.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2025
In the years since, Wickelgren, Kass and others have reframed a host of other enumerative problems using motivic homotopy theory, deriving the relevant quadratic forms in various number systems.
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025
About half of the company’s sales are direct-to-consumer, deriving from the stores as well as Rails’ e-commerce site.
—Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
The underlying metrics were also robust, with a significant portion of revenue deriving from subscriptions, which ensure stable, recurring cash flow.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Pollen is naturally released in bulk from seed-producing plants, and deriving paper from it requires only a few simple steps.
—Sandy Ong, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deriving
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By better understanding its environment, the robot can more effectively perceive and navigate the cluttered and complex interior of the reactor, avoiding obstacles and locating work areas.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
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The startup has built a unified real-time orchestration layer that manages all the different things the AI needs to do at once, such as listening, understanding what’s being said, deciding how to respond, checking databases, and delivering an answer.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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Still, the toll of deciding to sit Curry on some nights for rest weighs on him.—
Nick Friedell,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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Following the public comment period which ended Thursday, the TCEQ will respond to the concerns in writing before deciding whether to issue a permit that would allow the project to move forward.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Oct. 2025
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His real talent seemed to be inferring some of the more mundane details of my life.—
Webb Wright,
Scientific American,
18 Aug. 2025
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Like detectives reconstructing a crime scene or archaeologists inferring the entire shape of a pot from a minimal number of fragments, scholars of historical linguistics figure out the earlier forms that must have given rise to words in many different languages and connect the dots between them.—
Martha Barnette
August 6,
Literary Hub,
6 Aug. 2025
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Malcolm doesn’t take the rejection personally, deducing that Ellen is still grieving.—
Lincee Ray Published,
EW.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Nguyen allegedly charged toward a Homeland Security Investigations officer during a street fight, scraping the officer’s knees, though prosecutors dropped the federal case before indictment after concluding the evidence was too weak to proceed.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Nov. 2025
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The team finished 10-22 overall last season, concluding the season with six consecutive losses.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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