derive
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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
A T. Rowe Price fund manager thinks the hyperscalers can comfortably fund their investment spending, and moreover, derive high returns on that invested capital with a short payback schedule.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
While the combined company’s network holdings, which include CNN, CBS, MTV and Nickelodeon, still derive about $35 billion in annual revenue, the sector remains under pressure from cord-cutting and ad declines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
In contrast, the other family, which doesn't derive its income from AI or the tech world, had to instead move to a more suburban Bay Area town to the north.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Your chances of a 4 coming up only twice are a little harder to calculate unless you use the binomial probability distribution mentioned in Chapter 1, which I’ll derive again in this context.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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This equal four-step pattern is where the technique derives its name.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 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
The company is based in Seattle and incorporated in Delaware but derives most of its revenue from South Korea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Longstreet caught the conclusion of Sorrel’s sentence. ”... know that government derives its power from the consent of the governed.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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Mesenchymal stem cell therapies and extracellular vesicles derived from these cells may also provide broad immune-regulating effects.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
One key objection was the mature tone of the narrative, in which the child protagonist is directly confronted and endangered by the evils derived from fascist ideologies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
She also recommended treatments utilizing exosomes, vesicles derived from stem cells, which purport to combat anxiety among other menopause symptoms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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
Such chemicals already exist: the pyrethrins, rotenone, ryania, and others derived from plant substances.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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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
But the North Sea is not seen as deriving much profit for the group, even if more drilling is allowed.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
A year ago, 13% of S&P 500 index constituents noted benefits deriving from AI adoption.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
By deriving a distance-energy ratio, the model captures the essential chemistry of the reaction kinetics with significantly lower computational demands than conventional methods.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024
I asked, terrified at the unexpected sound, and incapable now of deriving from any occurrence a hope of aid.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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