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derivative

noun as in product, descendant

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It also recalls, without feeling derivative, the classic American dramas—Miller’s and others—in which fathers and sons, despite their best efforts to avoid it, turn into mortal enemies.

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There also are funds that use a combination of debt and derivatives to track gold’s price.

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Such energy sources would allow the project to produce environmentally clean hydrogen and its derivatives, which in turn are used to generate electricity and produce fertilizer.

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In response, Warner Bros. said “The Pitt” is not a “derivative work” of “ER.”

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“Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun.”

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