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  1. revised

  2. sivered

  3. dervise

  4. deviser

  5. diverse

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of derives in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of derives in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of derives in a Sentence

  1. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

    Joy and happiness derives not from receiving but from giving.

  2. Sigmund Freud:

    Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

  3. Michael Atkinson:

    It is hard not to think that the President's loss of confidence in me derives from my having faithfully discharged my legal obligations as an independent and impartial Inspector General.

  4. Sigmund Freud:

    Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.

  5. Primo Levi:

    The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.

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