deriving

present participle of derive

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Recent Examples of deriving Athletes are now deriving income from many sources. Nathan Goldman, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Verb
  • When inquiring about a networking organization, understanding the differences among the most prominent categories could further inform a business owner’s decisions.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Romer's endogenous growth theory provides a fascinating lens for understanding AI inference costs by treating knowledge and ideas as non-rivalrous goods with unique economic properties.
    Anjana Susarla, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The two stuck close to each other's sides while posing for the cameras, even deciding to share a smooch to celebrate the exciting night.
    Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said Sunday government officials did not conduct any data projections before deciding to roll back vaccine mandates to assess the impact this move would have on the state’s overall case numbers.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • His real talent seemed to be inferring some of the more mundane details of my life.
    Webb Wright, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Malcolm doesn’t take the rejection personally, deducing that Ellen is still grieving.
    Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Both times, Macy’s rejected the buyout offers, concluding the deals wouldn’t be in shareholders’ best interests.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
  • When she was eventually reached, both Rajab and the paramedics were found dead, with media investigations concluding that an Israeli tank had likely fired 335 rounds into the car.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Deriving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deriving. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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