direct
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"As such, we have made the difficult decision to direct funds towards securing a safe future for the monkeys."
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
“We’re optimistic that new leadership can bend the curve on traffic, but remain realistic that direct competitors have also gotten noticeably sharper, and the planned initiatives will take time to bear fruit,” he wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026
The move is a direct retaliation to the restrictions Italy imposed on Spain arrivals last week, after some 72,000 people breached Morocco’s land and sea borders with Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Instead, officials are trying to direct millions to handpicked organizations, according to sources and documents.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Washington viewed the uprising as a direct threat to the authority of the federal government and called out the militia, a massive thirteen-thousand-man army, to squelch the uprising.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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It then directs different quantum states along separate routes through the crystal.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Another motion directs the city attorney to explore legal action against any responsible parties to recoup taxpayer dollars spent on the emergency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
That’s leading to the rise of model routing — a technique that directs queries to the most suitable AI model.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
The order directs the Department of Interior to issue the warnings, and also to direct people about where they can find "accurate information regarding America's history".
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
But anyone can see that Peeta is preoccupied, so Caesar directs the conversation right into the subject that’s on everyone's minds.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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The mayor, who is up for re-election this year, said she directed city departments to work with local, state, federal, nonprofit and community partners to deliver immediate support and solutions.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
The movie, directed by Louis Leterrier and starring Greta Lee and Wagner Moura, follows a family of four who are trapped inside their home with no way out, according to a Netflix statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Not all the proposed funding is directed to controversial groups, our reporting found.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
The concentrated sunlight can then be directed onto the tiny nonlinear crystal responsible for producing the entangled photons.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
At last someone directed me to a distant platform.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Since his career began, Kelly had been pushing cine-dance forward, directing his first sequence and experimenting with double exposure in the “Alter Ego” dance for the 1944 film “Cover Girl.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Asked if the new orders would withstand judicial scrutiny, Trump predicted they would, before directing the question to White House staff secretary Will Scharf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
The Colosseum is not prescriptive about when people should visit, instead directing visitors to guidance from the regional authorities.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Lamming suspects that regular physical activity may offer protection by directing protein toward the development and maintenance of strong, healthy muscle.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
But, tell the truth, she’d been too busy directing the school’s Christmas play to worry much about him.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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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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