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are deriving

  • present progressive of derive.

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“And if the six are deriving some benefit then why shouldn’t they? Why wouldn’t they put their names to this otherwise?”

From Washington Times Oct. 11, 2020

British ministers are deriving comfort from the idea that he is essentially a deal-maker, a man who once said: “Everything is negotiable.”

From The Guardian Nov. 12, 2016

The scholars are deriving timeless lessons from an ancient religion but they are doing it on powerful computers dealing every day with contemporary questions from the faithful all over the world.

From BBC Mar. 16, 2016

“We’ve confirmed that the markets are deriving a great deal of information from these reports.”

From New York Times Oct. 24, 2015

Many are taking those studies, and are deriving great advantages therefrom.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen