derivation
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Derivation in and of itself isn’t a crime, especially in Hollywood, where the same 10 stories get recycled with the metronomic regularity of shrink appointments and Botox treatments.
From Washington Post • May 7, 2015
Henderson also wrote one of the first full-length biographies of Mark Twain, a 500,000-word history of his state, and a recondite mathematics treatise, "The Derivation of the Brianchon Configuration for Two Spatial Point-Triads."
From Time Magazine Archive
Derivation of "antithesis"?—Compose an example of an antithesis.—Point out the antithesis in the following:—
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
Derivation holds that every species changes in time, by virtue of inherent tendencies thereto.
From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George
Derivation of the Word Fib.—Can any of your readers suggest a proper derivation of this word?
From Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
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