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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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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

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

That welcome, though, has now been withdrawn, and there have been some hostile social media campaigns in Indonesia directed against the Rohingyas.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

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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