How to Use derivation in a Sentence
derivation
noun- Scientists are debating the possible derivation of birds from dinosaurs.
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The name Harlow is a derivation of his father’s stage name.
—Julian Voloj, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2021
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Not sure of her derivation of Lambuleh, or Lamby, but he was called that for the next 93 years.
—Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Aug. 2021
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It is named for the Latin derivation for Copenhagen, the city in which the metal was discovered.
—Marc Bona, cleveland, 9 Jan. 2023
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In other derivations, Samshin beats the baby blue, until it is forced from the womb.
—Longreads, 1 Aug. 2017
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The elaboration could have nothing to do with the wild path of the answer derivation.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 May 2023
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The Met has a fantastic show of Mexican painting up right now, and all of that art has a Catholic derivation.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 20 May 2018
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The derivation of the name Saigon is somewhat vague and centers around its water location.
—Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
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The derivation of the name Saigon is somewhat vague and centers around its water location.
—Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
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But there were just enough difference that the derivation was not a replication.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 May 2012
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Everything old is new again, though with some slight derivations.
—Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 Jan. 2018
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Card games are most common—poker, euchre, a derivation of spades called Snarples.
—Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 12 Dec. 2017
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Here two most famous red wines are Veneroso - a derivation of the family name - and Nambrot, which was the first name of the founder of the family.
—Tom Hyland, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
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The rest—the skyscrapers and supermarkets and weddings—were just a matter of derivation.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
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Would the Shakers have approved of Simons’s derivation?
—Diana Budds, Curbed, 26 Aug. 2022
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There is no comics counterpart to Riella, but her name comes from a derivation of Aunt May’s last name: Reilly.
—Dan Gvozden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 June 2023
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Work it off in local style aboard a Bellyak, a kayak derivation in which paddlers lie on their bellies and use their hands, clad in webbed gloves, to paddle.
—Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2019
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Major League Baseball provided 27 names the Sox chose and 16 of them are some derivation of their first or last names or their initials.
—Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2019
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So what's the problem with students taking a picture in class of a physics solution or the derivation of an equation?
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2022
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The actual derivation is from the 17th-century French picnique, and has nothing to do with race.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2019
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Whatever its derivation, the Greyback presides over gamey country in the Wyoming Range of western Wyoming.
—Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 2 May 2023
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Soul and its pop derivations grew directly from gospel’s breakthroughs.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2019
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There is plenty there for the Democrats, not only the derivation of the dossier and the working with Russian officials to generate it through Christopher Steele.
—Fox News, 14 Sep. 2018
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Over the years, single-member districts became the unquestioned norm and any derivation from them the strange exception.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 31 Dec. 2020
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The researchers' equation contains over 20 parameters, and the derivation appears more akin to math charting the path of spaceships.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2016
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In a derivation from the season-long trend of spending too much time on the penalty kill, the Stars possessed the puck enough to draw five penalties in the second period, including three on Manson.
—Dallas News, 26 Nov. 2022
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Correction: clarified the derivation of one of the percentages.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2020
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The derivation isn’t surprising on its own (no one would mistake a typical Roman for a feminist).
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 9 May 2018
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Not all of Ylitalo’s creations are so clearly of Asian or Buddhist derivation.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
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Schaefer gives his kids word lists to study, crafts a spelling curriculum, hammers home word roots and language derivations and enlists the help of word games and mini-bees to keep students engaged.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 10 June 2019
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