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Example sentences for: derivative

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perhaps a tad derivative of golub, but still an artist of far more restraint and maturity than one might expect of someone her age.
It's true that West can be formulaic, derivative, clunky, and annoyingly self-absorbed (though surely in this last category Wieseltier is more than a match for him).
I too, find a lot of what's come out of the 1990s derivative.
But it seemed finally better to be analogous rather than cleverly whimsical or totally derivative.
In the smoothing algorithm the spline points differ from the experimental data points by an amount that is proportional to the jump in the third derivative of the cubic spline function.