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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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Billions of dollars have flowed into direct indexing and long-short tax-aware strategies, which track the market while generating losses to offset capital-gains taxes that result from rebalancing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Asked whether he would support the Victim's Commissioner's call for a legal duty in the Courts and Tribunals Bill that would require judges to direct juries on rape myths and misconceptions in every rape trial.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Throughout the war, direct talks have been hard to come by.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The mystery began in 1992, when researchers at McGill University investigated a molecule that helps direct immune cells toward sites of infection.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

“All right. I think we have enough footage. How about you direct us to the school so we can get some shots of the chain itself?”

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

It added that Phone First is "not required" at the Ulster Hospital because its Urgent Care Centre directs patients "to the most appropriate service when they arrive".

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

The program, slated to be administrated by the California Housing Finance Agency, directs the state to create a down payment assistance fund for middle-income homebuyers, with up to $25 billion in bonds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Anton Corbijn directs this adaptation of Joanna Murray-Smith’s play “Switzerland.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Paul Cremo, who directs the Met's commissioning program, said creating the other-worldly universe for "Bardo" -- in which tendrils engulf singers and ghosts explode -- challenged the Met's technical staff.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

Faith directs me to lie down and tells me that for our first session she’s only going to leave the needles in for ten minutes.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

She’s been told that movies starring women and directed by women don’t make as much money as those made by men, that their audience is limited.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

He directed two comedies before he was dismissed in 1927.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Here, nerve fibers are organized so that information from the right visual field reaches the left side of the brain, while information from the left visual field is directed to the right side.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

But there seemed to be some frustration directed at the messenger.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

“That call could have been directed more expediently.”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

“I’m worried that the parts of directing that I’m not good at are those parts you can’t learn,” he admitted.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

Premiering off-Broadway in February 2024 and set to run six weeks, the show was given multiple extensions before transferring to Broadway, where it won Tony Awards for Escola’s performance and Pinkleton’s directing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Helen Crawford is to be much commended for directing this staging.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

For decades, scientists have understood that directing laser light at certain atoms can cause them to emit extremely short pulses of much higher-frequency light, including X-rays.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

A uniformed air raid warden starts blowing his whistle, windmilling his arm, directing people toward an open doorway in a stone building.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin


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