derive
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It is said to derive from the words used by The Spectator magazine when the journalist had missed the deadline to file his column.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
As long as the stock market remains strong, high-income families who derive much of their income from the ownership of these assets are likely to be able to keep driving consumption up.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
The key to the success of the method -- which the team informally dubbed "helping hands" -- is the transfer of healthy photosynthetic algae, also known as symbionts, from which corals derive their color.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Mark Taylor, CEO of the Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority North West, told the BBC: "The incident led to a delay in the fishers being able to derive an income from the bed".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Hooke, though, told the other two that he could derive all the laws of planetary motion starting out from the assumption of an inverse square law.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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“My anger derives from the sympathy I feel for those cancer patients who turn to laetrile. They are being victimized twice—once by their disease, and once by the profiteers.”
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
Platinum’s value derives primarily from industrial uses and therefore is a proxy for economic activity, while gold proxies not only for that activity but also for geopolitical uncertainty.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
This equal four-step pattern is where the technique derives its name.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
“I genuinely see Iran’s relationship with the axis as one of interdependence. It derives some of its strength, information and access to global markets through these different groups,” Salisbury said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Part of the resistance to Darwin and Wallace derives from our difficulty in imagining the passage of the millennia, much less the aeons.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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For most of them, this compound derived from apricot pits had nothing to do with politics.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
Some people scoff at trading strategies derived from numbers on a chart, but charts are just visual representations of market activity.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
The discovery provides the first definitive chemical confirmation of molecules derived from hemoglobin inside fossilized dinosaur red blood cells.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
Its title is derived from Shakespeare’s “Othello,” and the show earned Joycean comparisons, including to “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Black Man,” from critics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Gutenberg’s press was derived from screw presses in use for making wine and olive oil, while his ink was an oil-based improvement on existing inks.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The dollar jumped to its highest level since April 2025 against a basket of currencies, deriving continued support from the prospect of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates further.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
A year ago, 13% of S&P 500 index constituents noted benefits deriving from AI adoption.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
The chip maker is a major player in auto semiconductors, deriving around 55% to 60% of its revenue from the auto end market.
From Barron's ● Apr. 17, 2026
The imagery which depicted gods, goddesses, supreme preachers and enlightened souls of three ancient religions - Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism - was reimagined from symbolic to more recognisably deriving from human form.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
I asked, terrified at the unexpected sound, and incapable now of deriving from any occurrence a hope of aid.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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