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“The Welsh sensed the relationship was reciprocal, said Humphreys. “That he was deriving something from their friendships, from seeing how people in the mining communities supported one another and cared for one another.

From The Guardian • Jul. 2, 2017

By 2011, when Mr. Ahrenberg acquired the business, it had not published anything new in decades, he said, and was deriving much of its revenue from reconstituting and selling full sets of the Picasso catalog.

From New York Times • May 22, 2013

At its peak, GigLocator had hundreds of thousands of users and was deriving revenues from commission from tickets sold by vendors, according to Proud.

From Forbes • Jun. 20, 2012

He was deriving a secret pleasure from his self-depreciation.

From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor

Great Britain, then in a mad fever for the acquisition of wealth, was intoxicated with the rich profits it was deriving from the operations in the West Indies and other parts of Spanish America.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher