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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
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.
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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
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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And without understanding these models at a deep level, they can’t be trusted to do anything where failure is not an option.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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While there’s no single biomarker that can perfectly predict disease or mortality, there are many that reign supreme in understanding women’s overall health and disease risk.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
1 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps Moreno was still deciding on Minasian’s status with the club.—
Sam Blum,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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The new wording also gives the council wiggle room in deciding the city manager's annual salary, contract term and amount of severance pay.—
Maritza Dominguez,
AZCentral.com,
4 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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His Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour launches December 5 in Costa Rica and travels through Mexico, Spain, and England before concluding in Italy on July 17-18.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Sep. 2025
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And in 1987, under President Ronald Reagan, the FCC itself repealed the Fairness Doctrine, concluding that the rule was both unnecessary and a threat to free speech.—
John Eger,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Deriving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deriving. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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