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Six example sentences with deriving, each labelled with its topic.
Deriving an entire novel from one newspaper clipping took her three years, and the cutting stayed pinned above her desk throughout.
Literature
The stock's depth comes from deriving every drop of flavor from bones roasted twice before they ever touch the water.
Cooking
Deriving a complete ethics from reason alone was the ambition of the treatise, and critics have argued ever since about whether it succeeded.
Philosophy
Deriving the orbit from three nights of observations took the astronomer a week of arithmetic with logarithm tables.
Science
Deriving a fair price for the bond from its coupons and the current rates is a calculation every trainee learns first.
Finance
Deriving an encryption key from a password is deliberately slow, so that guessing millions of passwords becomes impractical.
Technology
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