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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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Carbon-14 dating ultimately confirmed that the helmets belonged to a poorly documented design from a transitional period in military technology that left no direct descendants.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

“We’re seeing the direct translation of AI-generated wealth into housing demand—AI workers are liquidating equity at an unprecedented scale and deploying that capital into the housing market.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

Investors can gain cryptocurrency exposure without direct ownership through plain-vanilla crypto ETFs, infrastructure funds and managed accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Football has often provided one of the few opportunities for direct engagement between the two countries.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 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




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