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To repeat what I emphasized above, however, these below-average chances derive solely from the stock market’s trailing two-year returns.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Warsh has spoken at length about not trying to guide traders so as to derive a better signal about the economy from financial markets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
As many as 30% of current schizophrenic patients derive little benefit from antipsychotic medication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The government is requiring all new data centers to derive at least 80% of their power from renewables.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
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
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But Steven derives a measure of comfort from the fact that the couple’s two young children are far more attached to him than to the barely present Lucy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
"The Fifa World Cup is the pinnacle of global football and derives its strength from the participation of all Confederations and the world's leading football nations," it said.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
The film derives its title from the girl’s interest in “Little Irène,” a painting by influential French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Yet her fame derives not from directing, but rather from acting in more than 200 motion pictures from the mid-1920s until shortly before her death, at age 67, in 1977.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
But their real power derives from the fact that the reviews are the reports of volunteers — of diners who want to share their opinions with others.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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His channel, Aeris Rimor -- roughly derived from the Latin for Searcher of the Skies -- is one of dozens sending real-time messages about incoming drones and missiles.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
These catalogs are designed to make specialized scientific investigations easier by organizing and enhancing information derived from the main survey data.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
He runs his business by the “humanistic capitalism” he derived from ancient philosophers whose names he casually drops in conversation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The BEA previously derived its legal data from an unpublished survey in the consumer-price index that had an unusually small sample size.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
His arguments were not those we use today, but they were subtle and elegant, derived from everyday life.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
Enterprises, which can include companies and other large organizations, have passed through several stages in the way they think about deriving value from AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
But Bayesian inference can be slow, sometimes consuming weeks or even months of computation time or requiring a researcher to spend hours deriving tedious equations by hand.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024
Her logic was a combination of half-truths and cliches, her worldview a compound of misconceptions deriving from a history of our nation as written from the perspective of a subway tunnel.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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