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draw on
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draw on someone or something and draw upon someone or something
to use someone or something in some beneficial way; to extract from a resource, reserve, etc. I may have to draw on your advice in order to complete this project. If there is some way you can draw on me to your advantage, let me know. By the end of the contest I had drawn upon all the energy I had.
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draw on something
to get ideas or facts from something The second half of the book draws on new discoveries in the field of microbiology.
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He will be profoundly missed by those whose lives he touched, but he leaves us with extraordinary inspiration to draw upon.
Mattar said, "At this stage in the CDA's development it is important for us to draw upon the expertise of other successful social systems to maximize the efficiency of our own.
Pierre et Marie Curie) and Cambon (mechanics, French National Center for Scientific Research) draw upon their significant research in their examples, and consider the needs of the practitioner in their organization, starting with an explanation of the statistical analysis of homogeneous turbulent flows and moving on to incompressible homogeneous isotropic turbulence, including pure rotation (anisotropic) strain, pure shear, buoyancy and stable stratification.
 
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