Sample Sentences for
derivative
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  • Basically they're all testosterone or testosterone derivatives.  (source)
    derivatives = things developed from something else
  • 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
  • SEMUTA: the second narcotic derivative (by crystal extraction) from burned residue of elacca wood.†  (source)
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  • I'd understood a derivative five minutes ago.†  (source)
  • So are derivatives.†  (source)
  • His work was dismissed, ridiculed, described as derivative and silly.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • And then he'd add, "although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative."†  (source)
  • What attracts you to derivatives in particular?†  (source)
  • Hell, you can get a mild derivative of that in any over-the-counter pep-up.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Derivatives.†  (source)
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