Definition of "deriving" []

• Present participle of derive. (verb)

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• "This doctrine he called “synechism,” a word deriving from the Greek preposition that means “(together) with.”"
• "Eddie scored some great shots, and I got a cover story that later became a book, The Scariest Place in the World: A Marine Returns to North Korea, the title deriving from a presidential quote."
• "He came up with Mrs Buttercup Kennedy, almost certainly Mary Kirk, the nickname deriving from a hat she had once worn."