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  • And if my language offends you, sir, look up the derivation of the offending word.†  (source)
  • Recipe' is a modern derivation.†  (source)
  • They were waiting for something to stir in the dead city, some gray form to rise, some ancient, ancestral shape to come galloping across the vacant sea bottom on an ancient, armored steel of impossible lineage, of unbelievable derivation.†  (source)
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  • "Frankly," I said, "I'm a little curious about the derivation of all this."†  (source)
  • The derivations of words, curious usages.†  (source)
  • It was strange in the sense that he could discover neither derivation nor motivation nor explanation for it.†  (source)
  • Could she really be that interested in root derivations?†  (source)
  • The opinion of the Yard was divided respecting the derivation of its name.†  (source)
  • As we covered each postulate and theorem, it soon became clear that Dorothy actually understood their derivations better than I did.†  (source)
  • Terry croaked, "Don't trust math too much, son," and he so confused him with references to the thermo-dynamical derivation of the mass action law, and to the oxidation reduction potential, that he stumbled again into raging humility, again saw himself an impostor and a tenth-rater.†  (source)
  • I believe in barbecue in all its regional derivations, in its ethnic translations, in forms that range from white-tablecloth presentations of cunningly sauced costillas, to Chinese take-out spareribs that stain your fingers red, to the most authentic product of the tar-paper rib shacks of the Deep South.†  (source)
  • Our breakfast consisted of several dishes whose contents were all supplied by the sea, and some foods whose nature and derivation were unknown to me.†  (source)
  • But when you give your answers, make sure to write out your derivations.†  (source)
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