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derive

[dih-rahyv] / dɪˈraɪv /


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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

If the forms of the Lucas Museum derive from nature, it is nature as abstracted by industrial design.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Tire manufacturers say models that meet the new standards cost hundreds of dollars more per set, far more than the commission’s estimate and any savings consumers would derive from improved fuel economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

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

From them, it should be possible to derive a complete system of knowledge embracing every aspect of the natural world, just as one can deduce the whole of Euclidean geometry from five axioms.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

He derives energy from his students and from his four daughters, ages 14 to 20.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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

Reuters, which like Politico derives much of its revenue from business-to-business offerings, said it is also weighing whether to block Google’s bot for its consumer-facing news product as traffic declines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

HouseCanary, in turn, derives its listings from multiple-listing services, a vast network of local organizations that agents use to share homes for sale with each other.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Montaigne’s thinking here derives from his reading of Lucretius.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

But she was treated with heparin, an anticoagulant derived from intestinal tissue of pigs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

The revised half-life is 12.044 billion years, give or take 0.088 billion, making it twice as precise as the earlier value derived from nuclear physics.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Part of the expected revenue would be derived from a satellite-communications business that hasn’t launched any devices to orbit yet, and a planned fleet of artificial-intelligence satellites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

But a subset of early-stage founders is embracing an ethos derived from an extreme reliance on artificial intelligence: Stay small for as long as possible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

His lasting fame, indeed immortality, derived from his authorship of the Declaration of Independence in June of 1776, but few Americans knew about that role in 1790.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

The sticky part is deciding how the benefits deriving from pathogens are defined and then shared, how the system is governed, and how equity is guaranteed.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

A year ago, 13% of S&P 500 index constituents noted benefits deriving from AI adoption.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

There was no evidence that any significant positive effects on engagement deriving from students having a strong bond with their teacher at age eight or nine persisted as they got older.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024

After a while he fell asleep, and she lay there holding his head, deriving a small but important comfort, even faintly smiling as she stared at the ceiling.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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