be derived
Example Sentences
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He envisages huge efficiency gains to be derived from its incorporation into business operations and practices.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 26, 2026
Fifteen billion would be derived from food crops like corn, but much of the rest was to come from the development of cellulosic ethanol: fuel from wood chips, switch grass and the like.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
An unremitting tragedy that permanently altered our lives — where little meaning can be derived and which even less justice has been served.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025
The answer was to give a person a family name, which could be derived from patronymics and matronymics - names based on a father or mother's name.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2025
In fact, as he remembered it, there had always been a kind of joy in attacking a thing that could not be hurt, a kind of satisfaction to be derived by all parties involved.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
