derive

Example Sentences

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"So what was it in the end - poison derived from the skin of a South American frog or Novichok?"

From BBC

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was almost certainly killed by a poison derived from a rare frog toxin in an Arctic prison colony two years ago, several European governments said Saturday.

From The Wall Street Journal

Especially if you aren’t familiar with the cult web series from which this film derives.

From Los Angeles Times

Hardenberg said, “98% of our export revenues derive from the fisheries. And to develop as a country and as a people, we need other revenue streams.”

From The Wall Street Journal

That estimate was derived from plant height measurements using a regression model that both calculated and predicted crown volume from height alone.

From Science Daily