Thesaurus results for DERIVING

deriving

verb

present participle of derive

as in understanding

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 1995, the death of 16-year-old John Marshall, who suffered a heart attack deriving from an undiagnosed condition known as arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, proved to be a line-in-the-sand moment. — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026 There's no retrieval system for reusing institutional knowledge rather than re-deriving it. — Imran Aftab, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026 Nurse also has a history of violence in Miami-Dade, Florida, prosecutors said, where he was sentenced to five years of probation for deriving support from the proceeds of prostitution in November 2019. — John Annese, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026 Understand that your parents must be deriving some satisfaction from encouraging your brother’s dependency. — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026 But deriving a unified theory of volcanism will require a geologic Manhattan Project. — Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2026 On Thursday, a jury found Geisy Rodriguez Brito, 33, of Royal Palm Beach, guilty of human trafficking and unlawful use of a two-way communications device but not guilty of deriving support from the proceeds of prostitution or witness tampering. — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026 The very legitimacy of deriving general principles from the particulars of experience can never be established from experience without already having the principle in hand. — Christopher Beha, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026 Thomas is charged with human trafficking, while Robertson is charged with human trafficking, transporting a person from out of state into the state for human trafficking, branding in relation to human trafficking, deriving support from proceeds of prostitution, and battery. — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 25 Nov. 2025

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Thus, understanding these binary systems is vital to our understanding of stars and of galaxies in general.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2026
And yet the key to understanding a cat’s meow will often rest specifically with that cat’s caretaker.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

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As a retired fighter, Taylor faces the daunting task of deciding what comes next.

— Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Right to Work laws consistently rank as one of the most important factors business leaders consider when deciding which state to relocate to or expand in, creating new jobs.

— Mark Mix, Sun Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2026

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This allows engineers to collect information directly from within the battery rather than inferring its condition through external measurements alone.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 June 2026
The platform should generate MCP tools at runtime, discovering sources, inferring schema semantics and exposing them to agents without manual configuration while updating the ontology in near real time.

— Shailesh Manjrekar, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026

Definition of inferring

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The Supreme Court lifted an injunction last month after concluding the challenge was premature because USPS had not issued a final rule.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2026
With only a few hours of the window remaining on Tuesday, Palace were concluding an extraordinary 10 incoming and outgoing deals.

— Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

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