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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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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

Add that page as a bookmark, and you can visit direct - allowing you to watch the highlights in blissful ignorance of what happens.

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

Even so, Mezzenga expects it to be substantially less expensive than conventional direct air capture systems.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

“He’s been sick,” Gibby whispered, as if Ridge wasn’t in direct earshot.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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