Sample Sentences forderivative (editor-reviewed)
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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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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)
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So are derivatives.† (source)
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His work was dismissed, ridiculed, described as derivative and silly.† (source)
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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)
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And then he'd add, "although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative."† (source)
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What attracts you to derivatives in particular?† (source)
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It's called Nyodene Derivative or Nyodene D. It was in a movie we saw in school on toxic wastes.† (source)
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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)
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It is a derivative of Mabmood, meaning "praised".† (source)
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Derivatives.† (source)
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