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Comparisons between original scientific reports and derivative science journalism often reveals dramatic distortion and oversimplification.derivative = work based upon prior work
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The museum is showcasing Picasso and art derivative of his influence.derivative = work influenced by prior work
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She described his book as too derivative to be of interest.derivative = based upon prior works (without original ideas)
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X is a derivative of y.derivative = value that can be calculated from a function
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The company created a derivative that is supposed to protect against inflation.derivative = an investment whose value is based upon another value
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Basically they're all testosterone or testosterone derivatives. (source)derivatives = things developed from something else
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Red paused for a minute and then spoke directly to Margaret and me using a derivative of my name that only Red Stevens was allowed to use. (source)derivative = something developed from something else--such as a word based on another word
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Upstairs, puzzling light-headed over differential equations, Newton's Law of Cooling, independent variables, we have used the fact that tau is constant to eliminate its derivative, Hobie's presence below stairs was an anchor, a friendly weight: I was comforted to hear the tap of his mallet floating up from below and to know that he was down there pottering quietly with his tools and his spirit gums and varicolored woods.† (source)derivative = something developed from something else
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His work was dismissed, ridiculed, described as derivative and silly.† (source)derivative = something developed from something else
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What attracts you to derivatives in particular?† (source)derivatives = things developed from other things
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The whole thing is less derivative than it sounds and not without humor and irony.† (source)derivative = something developed from something else
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So are derivatives.† (source)derivatives = things developed from other things
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And then he'd add, "although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative."† (source)derivative = something developed from something else
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The suite in which Devereux Warren was gracefully weakening and sinking was of the same size as that of the Señor Pardo y Cuidad Real—throughout this hotel there were many chambers wherein rich ruins, fugitives from justice, claimants to the thrones of mediatized principalities, lived on the derivatives of opium or barbitol listening eternally as to an inescapable radio, to the coarse melodies of old sins.† (source)derivatives = things developed from other things
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SEMUTA: the second narcotic derivative (by crystal extraction) from burned residue of elacca wood.† (source)derivative = something developed from something else
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Waste is an interesting word that you can trace through Old English and Old Norse back to the Latin, finding such derivatives as empty, void, vanish and devastate.† (source)derivatives = things developed from other things
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Lucas said, "I'm just saying we don't want to come across as derivative."† (source)derivative = something developed from something else
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Derivatives.† (source)Derivatives = things developed from other things
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