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direct

[dih-rekt, dahy-] / dɪˈrɛkt, daɪ- /










Usage

What are other ways to say direct? To direct is to give information for guidance, or instructions or orders for a course of procedure: to direct someone to the station. To conduct is to precede or escort them to a place, sometimes with a degree of ceremony: to conduct a guest to his room. Guide implies continuous presence or agency in showing or indicating a course: to guide a traveler. To lead is to bring them onward in a course, guiding by contact or by going in advance; hence, figuratively, to influence or induce to some course of conduct: to lead a procession; to lead astray.

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Such investments can provide direct exposure to the data-center boom, but they can also involve significantly greater complexity, illiquidity and risk than publicly traded stocks or ETFs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Australia’s Qantas, for example, earlier this year suspended its direct flight from Perth to London after calculating that the 17-hour flight wasn’t viable without flying through the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The Popinjay Cavalier, set in 1830s Europe, was announced earlier this year and is the first play to be written for stage by the US filmmaker, who is also set to direct.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

“Those threats are a direct result of him taking on the cartels terrorizing Texans and some of the nation’s most dangerous violent criminals.”

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

To deal with each other more effectively in the future, Kennedy and Khrushchev established a “hotline”—a direct phone line from Moscow to Washington.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Its platform models customers’ artificial intelligence use cases and then directs those demands toward the hardware best suited for their level of complexity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

But sometimes the law Congress enacts explicitly directs the judiciary to defer to the views of federal agencies who have studied a difficult problem and made evidence-based recommendations.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

The Games Agreement directs LA28 to work with the mayor, city attorney, city administrative officer and chief legislative analyst on matters related to the Olympics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

She directs that fitness income into a separate bank account — what she calls her “fun bucket” — to self-fund a community-focused lifestyle brand under her own LLC.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

A worker directs us onto one of the ramps, and we pull up and squeeze in close to the car in front of us.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

The changes have been brewing for the past year but kicked into gear last month when Pulte directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to approve all lenders to use VantageScore 4.0.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The Rams are 2-2 after Stafford directed two fourth-quarter touchdown drives for a 24-20 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Police chiefs say violence, directed by agitators who have no link to the schools, is making their job incredibly hard.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The approach begins with a laser directed through the air.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

“Pass your homework to the person in front of you,” she directed.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Williams told the inquiry there were "outside forces" that seemed to him to be directing the course of the investigation.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Meanwhile, security and environmental challenges along the Suez and Panama canals are directing more shipments through Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

When discussing JPM, Stucky said: “They are not managing to be the most efficient, but they have been outgrowing the industry by directing capital to where it will benefit the most in the longer run.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026

They are crucial for directing the body's immune defences and are targets for research into treatments of several inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Then they began to come closer, all together, as if some internal voice were directing them.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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