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 Understand that your parents must be deriving some satisfaction from encouraging your brother’s dependency. — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026 Adoring the outcome means deriving joy from seeing the success of others. — Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 14 June 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 The very legitimacy of deriving general principles from the particulars of experience can never be established from experience without already having the principle in hand. — Christopher Beha, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026 Thomas is charged with human trafficking, while Robertson is charged with human trafficking, transporting a person from out of state into the state for human trafficking, branding in relation to human trafficking, deriving support from proceeds of prostitution, and battery. — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 25 Nov. 2025 In Brazil, Funk Brasilero, a genre deriving from the favelas and peripheries of major cities, has been around for a decade or more now, but deserves to expand beyond the country. — Rosamaria Garces, Billboard, 24 Nov. 2025 Miami is deriving the least offense from picks of any team over the last 15 seasons, per Sportradar. — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 21 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deriving
  1. understanding
  2. deciding
  3. inferring
  4. deducing
  5. concluding
Verb
  • Congressman Jeff Hurd, who represents Colorado’s Third District, said the project could put quantum technology to work in understanding domestic resources.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026
  • For fellow author Marissa Stapley, Telfer’s book is key to understanding why con artists are seen as intriguing — an idea Stapley explored in her 2021 novel, Lucky.
    — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of understanding
Verb
  • The decorations actually carry years of family memories, which makes deciding what stays especially personal.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 16 Aug. 2026
  • For the industry, replacing the cryptography may be easier than deciding how to implement the migration.
    — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of deciding
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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 27-year-old main rapper and sub-vocalist confirmed her decision on Instagram, concluding 14 years with JYP since joining as a trainee.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Lower courts had tossed out the last-ditch appeals to save Bruce by concluding the animal rescue lacked a concrete interest in the dog's survival sufficient to challenge the dangerousness finding by local authorities.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of concluding

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