direct
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It does not establish direct cause and effect in people or prove that drinking coffee prevents disease.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
You can do as many direct rollovers as you like, as often as you like.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 19, 2026
They would also direct him with specific requests for what to bring to Tahnoon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
And because the cars can rotate 360 degrees, Universal can in theory direct rider yells away from the studio below and the neighborhood nearby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Even though it happened so many years ago and so far away, our school has a direct connection to the Holocaust!
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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The nanoparticles carried messenger RNA that directs cells to produce PTEN, a protein that helps prevent uncontrolled tumor growth.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Whether she directs that talent toward good or evil varies from episode to episode, but she embodies the scrappy, anarchic spirit of old-time New York.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026
‘The Bear’ returns for its final season, Olivia Wilde directs a dinner-party dramedy, Woody and Buzz face down a tablet in ‘Toy Story 5,’ and much, much more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
A third directs the Los Angeles Fire Department to create a report detailing the cause of the fire, the facility’s compliance history and oversight protocols for similar facilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
The woman disappears and Cinna is retrieved from the roof, An Avox boy comes in and directs us to a room where breakfast has been laid out.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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That welcome, though, has now been withdrawn, and there have been some hostile social media campaigns in Indonesia directed against the Rohingyas.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Now, policies are seemingly directed at obscuring conditions in the for-profit facility operated by The GEO Group.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
The telescopes simultaneously created multiple focused beams, with one directed at K2-18b and another aimed elsewhere in the sky.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Stillz even directed the teaser for Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Headmarveller Rivera greeted Masterji Thakur and directed the floating scroll to jump into her pocket.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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By the late teens he was directing comedies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
AltaMed didn’t directly answer some of the union’s claims, directing The Times to a statement the nonprofit provided.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
BBC Newsbeat has approached the company for more information, but received a reply from the company's liquidators, directing us to their case documents published online, external.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Instead, the most noticeable changes occurred in brain networks responsible for directing attention and responding to sensory information.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
If Christopher could keep him talking—if he could keep the man from directing the force of his power at him—perhaps he could think of a way to survive.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Ancient Greece, Lessons 1–3
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Academy Awards, List 6
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