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MLB teams traditionally have derived 20% to 25% of their overall revenue from local media, more than any other major American sports league.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

"The breakthrough innovation here is that we have derived a very efficient way of finding that optimal safe motion that typical optimization-based methods would never find."

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024

And while everyone has different flavour preferences, we believe we have derived a procedure to help the barista out, and achieve the flavour profile they intended, every single time.

From Scientific American • Oct. 1, 2022

Part of the public sympathy for the queen in 2002 may have derived from her personal losses: Her mother and her sister, Margaret, both died that year.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022

Indeed, willingness of Hopkins scientists to provide access to the cultures is perhaps the principal reason for the great benefits that have derived from their use.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot