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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deriving
  1. understanding
  2. deciding
  3. inferring
  4. deducing
  5. concluding
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  • Gathering relevant data is a vital first step to understanding everything from the value of underground mineral deposits to the money held in pension funds.
    — Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The incentive structures that power the mathematical community are not set up for a world where solving problems is easy and understanding their answers remains hard.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of understanding
Verb
  • Atlanta’s rotation got upended during its three-game NL wild-card series win over the Philadelphia Phillies, with the Braves using ace Chris Sale in relief in the deciding game.
    — Beth Harris, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The Braves deployed him Thursday, for the final four outs of the deciding game of the wild-card round.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of deciding
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  • 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
  • The platform should generate MCP tools at runtime, discovering sources, inferring schema semantics and exposing them to agents without manual configuration while updating the ontology in near real time.
    — Shailesh Manjrekar, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Definition of inferring
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  • Both these properties are important tools for deducing the age and origin of the comet.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The ending unfolds in a broadly similar way in both versions, with Bundle deducing that Loraine killed Gerry.
    — Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
Definition of deducing
Verb
  • The sportswear giant announced the end of their relationship last month, concluding nearly two decades of sponsorship, which began when Mbappé was just nine years old.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Alyssa Lareau, who left the Civil Rights Division’s Federal Coordination and Compliance Section last year after concluding that anti-discrimination laws such as Title VI were no longer being faithfully enforced, was similarly torn.
    — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of concluding

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“Deriving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deriving. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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