direct
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Bosses often struggle to get honest feedback from direct reports, who are “psychologically programmed to reassure” them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
This page will take you direct to a World Cup highlights page on BBC iPlayer, which will have highlights for every match without telling you who has won.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
Since the beginning of May, those two data sets show approximately 96 million barrels of confirmed non-Iranian crude exiting the Persian Gulf through either direct Hormuz transits or Gulf of Oman-linked export networks, he said.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Traditional direct air capture systems typically rely on heat and negative pressure to release captured CO2 from the materials that hold it.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
He was direct to a fault and made me feel like my skin was two sizes too small.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Vocabulary lists containing direct
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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