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It can be used to describe something derived from the original source, such as a new interpretation of an old idea. For example, you could say "The movie was a derivatively of the classic novel."
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derivatively
adverb
In a derivative fashion
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But this too is only a derivatively special obligation: it is derived from the fundamental duty to maximize value.
Derivatively, bits of languages may be used by humans to control machinery, as when different buttons and switches are marked with words or phrases designating their functions.
These languages are therefore full-fledged click languages but derivatively so.
When someone says something stupid about magic, or sells something fake, or performs derivatively or cynically in some way, he just can't abide it — just cannot accept it — and uses whatever forum he has to denounce the offense.
Because the document was still classified, anything Eisenberg wrote about its contents would become "derivatively classified," so he was obliged to write his brief under supervision — not of the court but of the Litigation Security Section of the Justice Department, his adversary.
The video has gone viral, spawning countless memes and derivatively showcasing the septuagenerian's work to audiences who never heard of him.
"Though loosely based on events in the life of Letts's own family, it often seems derivatively inspired by the dramas of Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee, combined with a dash of top-class American soap opera," you add, in a remarkably similar formation of words used by Charles Spencer in the Telegraph.
The girl's father, Michael A. Newdow, an atheist, brought the lawsuit arguing that the inclusion of the phrase "under God" in the pledge harmed his daughter and, derivatively, himself.
EBay has derivatively and directly sued the two other shareholders of Craigslist, Craig Newmark and James Buckmaster, in Delaware Chancery Court for breach of fiduciary duty and various violations of Delaware corporate law.
Thus, on this account, the consequentialist secures only derivatively special obligations: reasons to take special care of a select group of people that are derived from a more general duty to care for all persons as such.
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A person desires to promote another's good, not non-derivatively because she judges it right to promote his good and so desires to do just that, but because she desires to do what is right, and that just happens to be promoting his good.
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