Thesaurus results for DERIVING

deriving

verb

present participle of derive

as in understanding

to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information from the summit, he was able to derive his location from the position of several prominent landmarks

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Recent Examples of deriving There is just enough wry humor—think Shaun of the Dead—sprinkled throughout to keep things from getting too grim, often deriving from Bryan’s cluelessness and general lack of skills. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026 The Chiefs finished dead last in the NFL with 362 yards deriving from explosive rushes last season. — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026 In 1995, the death of 16-year-old John Marshall, who suffered a heart attack deriving from an undiagnosed condition known as arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, proved to be a line-in-the-sand moment. — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026 There's no retrieval system for reusing institutional knowledge rather than re-deriving it. — Imran Aftab, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026 Nurse also has a history of violence in Miami-Dade, Florida, prosecutors said, where he was sentenced to five years of probation for deriving support from the proceeds of prostitution in November 2019. — John Annese, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026 Understand that your parents must be deriving some satisfaction from encouraging your brother’s dependency. — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026 But deriving a unified theory of volcanism will require a geologic Manhattan Project. — Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2026 On Thursday, a jury found Geisy Rodriguez Brito, 33, of Royal Palm Beach, guilty of human trafficking and unlawful use of a two-way communications device but not guilty of deriving support from the proceeds of prostitution or witness tampering. — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026

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During that period and beyond, Hawthorne kept a series of notebooks, which scholars see as an important primary source for understanding the ideas and descriptions that informed his early writings and later novels.

— Robert S. Levine, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026
The science writer Ann Finkbender wrote a charming essay about understanding this principle of life in Last Word on Nothing.

— Shayla Love, Vox, 25 Oct. 2026

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Moghadam also said that Tehran would study the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement that includes Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey before deciding whether to support it, describing it as a potential instrument for unity.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Florida voters are deciding whether to pass a constitutional amendment that would lower property taxes for some — but not all — homeowners by raising the state’s homestead tax exemption.

— Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2026

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But some experts are inferring that the cancer was likely caught early, noting that surgery is often prescribed when the entire tumor can be removed.

— Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 16 Oct. 2026
This allows engineers to collect information directly from within the battery rather than inferring its condition through external measurements alone.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 June 2026

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After a release-weekend show at Camp Flog Gnaw on November 14, the rapper-producer will kick off a full North American trek in Februrary, concluding some five weeks later in Vancouver.

— Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026
Well, this royal soap opera shows no signs of concluding anytime soon.

— Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 22 Oct. 2026

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