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“He is direct, thoughtful, and deeply cares about this company. That is exactly what you want in a chairman.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

They then react to the opponents' movements by speeding up play, looking to take advantage of the spaces behind the pressing players through direct passing or powerful carrying.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

By choosing “what we are, what we create and what we do,” as Feiler says, we’re more apt to serve as our own director, rather than letting external factors direct us.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

As a student at the AFI Conservatory, Bonilla had directed a short film version of “The Musical” that writer Alexander Heller, aware of her affinity for comedy, had conceived for Bonilla to direct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Like any good military mind, I decided that a direct assault was the wrong move.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

In addition to spreading out the strain on manufacturing partners, Apple’s phased rollout also directs more attention to its higher-end phones.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026

L.A. theater director Bart DeLorenzo adapts and directs a new version of Ibsen’s savagely timely ‘Enemy of the People’ at the Odyssey Theatre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Rather than point state regulators to a fixed edition of the forms, the rule directs them to the NAIC’s dynamic website.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Rather than proposing a dedicated decision-making system that directs behavior, James suggests that sensory, sensorimotor, and motor processes together produce what he calls 'action selection.'

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

She directs us to sit on a bright yellow overstuffed couch before disappearing into the kitchen.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

The new film, directed by Georgia Oakley, follows the Dashwood sisters as they navigate their way through love, loss and societal expectations, following the death of their father.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

He directed the board to notify him when the endowment has raised the money and give the court at least 60 day’s notice before it installs an inscription.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

“In addition, the Korean entities’ U.S.-specific design supported the conclusion that they purposefully directed the defective vehicles to California.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

When laser light was directed at the structures, the resulting diffraction patterns formed distinctive pinwheel-like shapes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

She directed the boat around a peninsula and began to paddle east.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Since she started directing, Bonilla has cast her father in many of her short films.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The process begins by directing antimuons from PSI's accelerator into a thin layer of superfluid helium.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Its momentum escalated after David Harbour and Linda Cardellini won supporting acting trophies, and creator Steven Conrad scored writing and directing honors at an Emmys ceremony earlier this month.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Dylan, she said, was pursuing acting while Carys was interested in directing.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

She knew the dino’s rider was directing it to attack her, but she couldn’t help but feel for the poor beast anyway.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older