be derived
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Fifteen billion would be derived from food crops like corn, but much of the rest was to come from the development of cellulosic ethanol: fuel from wood chips, switch grass and the like.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
Musk has said that Tesla wants to make several thousand units this year, and that around 80% of Tesla’s value will eventually be derived from Optimus.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 17, 2025
An unremitting tragedy that permanently altered our lives — where little meaning can be derived and which even less justice has been served.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025
The answer was to give a person a family name, which could be derived from patronymics and matronymics - names based on a father or mother's name.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2025
In love with whole numbers, the Pythagoreans believed all things could be derived from them, certainly all other numbers.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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