derive from

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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 • Feb. 12, 2026

Importantly, these two booming projections derive from very different business models.

From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025

No matter how fantastical “Trifole” eventually becomes, the filmmakers insist the plot points derive from tales they collected.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

Humans do not make vitamins; vitamin B6 we derive from a plant diet.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025

Probabilities, arguments of credibility, circumstances of likelihoods—these all derive from Evidence-Indices.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton