The phrase "I have derived" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of obtaining or deducing something from a source or set of information.
Example: "From my research, I have derived several key insights that could improve our strategy."
Alternatives: "I have obtained" or "I have concluded."
Finally, I have derived enormous pleasure from his recording of The Rite of Spring with the Cleveland Orchestra.
"Over my professional career, I have derived great personal pleasure working with students and physicians at Columbia," Griffiths said.
Over the course of my career I have derived enormous insight for continuing to couple an awareness of more popular sources with the professional literature.
Since a good deal of what follows consists of excerpts from the journal of a Carson-watcher, I feel bound to declare a financial interest, and to admit that I have derived pecuniary benefit from his activities.
One lesson that I have derived from participating in this debate, for heaven knows how many years, is the simple-minded assumption that you either deserve to be there or you don't.
And now that it is time for me to yield this space, I thought to compress into the allotted 1,200 words other nuggets I have derived from 613 weeks -- I did take vacations -- of sometimes furious research.
To this end, I've derived a simple equation to aid your purchasing decisions: 1.
I've derived a simple mathematical model to show that loss aversion is really the outcome of a survival instinct.
As to the rezoning, he said yesterday, "The only good thing I've derived is that I've lived long enough to see it".
That's partly because I've derived more enjoyment out of Jessie J's remarks than I have out of her woeful music.
These dreams of renunciation and patience, it occurred to me, were prejudices that I had derived from my own life and my own experience as a writer.
