derive from

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But “The Singing Word: 168 Years of Poetry from The Atlantic” is lovely, both as a collection and in the pleasure and enlightenment readers will derive from individual poems.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Kurvilla, who studied at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and taught global health policy at Boston University, said that "40 percent or more of biomedical Western medicine, pharmaceuticals, derive from natural products".

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

No matter how fantastical “Trifole” eventually becomes, the filmmakers insist the plot points derive from tales they collected.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

My son stands for — and I speak of him in present tense — everything that’s beautiful about life and the gifts that we all derive from our source.

From Salon • Jul. 27, 2025

During my thirty-four-year tenure as a climber, I’d found that the most rewarding aspects of mountaineering derive from the sport’s emphasis on self-reliance, on making critical decisions and dealing with the consequences, on personal responsibility.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer