derivation

Example Sentences

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The term, after all, means “no place,” but its derivation has never muted the attraction of such an impossibility.

From Washington Post

“It’s to be a derivation of higher education.”

From Seattle Times

Later, in “Alphabet Bété,” he would make explicit each character’s derivation in his preferred medium of colored pencil on boards the size of playing cards.

From New York Times

The first pasta was a "derivation of unleavened bread cut into flattened strips similar to tagliatelle," the Publishers Weekly review reported.

From Fox News

He reminds patients that the Greek derivation of diet is diaeta, which means “a way of life.”

From Washington Post