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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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Liverpool went more direct against a Brighton side that likes to keep the ball and it worked.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Previously, Singapore was one of Nvidia’s top destinations, but now Nvidia reports geographic revenue based on the direct customer headquarters rather than the customer billing locations.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

Nie explained that these grazing collisions are recognizable because they generate far fewer particles than direct impacts.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

In October, the firm closed its inaugural direct lending fund, a private credit strategy to deploy about $4 billion in middle-market European investments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“Just a direct gaze like he’s always known where he’s going. Doesn’t doubt himself.”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

It directs cells to reorganize their mitochondria and change their muscle fiber characteristics.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Mr. Compton also directs the production, which is staged on a two-tiered unit set depicting a barnacle-encrusted old pier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Paul Cremo, who directs the Met's commissioning program, said creating the other-worldly universe for "Bardo" -- in which tendrils engulf singers and ghosts explode -- challenged the Met's technical staff.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

But sometimes the law Congress enacts explicitly directs the judiciary to defer to the views of federal agencies who have studied a difficult problem and made evidence-based recommendations.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

Cressida directs the team to start with me at my old house.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

I had never realised how stressful that part of management was until we started to lose a few games and every bit of criticism was directed on to my lap.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

In voting to abandon the road elevation project, the supervisors directed county staff to immediately begin developing plans to reroute the road and to approach — and potentially negotiate with — land owners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Mr. Spector’s disintegration—and accompanying makeup—are utterly disturbing and directed at the balcony.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Taylor said Counter Terrorism Policing had seen "a range of incidents in recent months that we believe have been directed by the Iranian state".

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

Then he directed his teeth at my arm and chomped the air twice.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

Humphrey Carpenter’s authorized 1977 biography contains three index mentions of Shakespeare, none directing the reader to anything complimentary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

For decades, scientists have understood that directing laser light at certain atoms can cause them to emit extremely short pulses of much higher-frequency light, including X-rays.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

And his subsequent directing efforts were, for the most part, either abortive or undistinguished.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Anthropic, which publicly filed its IPO prospectus Monday, is directing investors to a nonstandard metric called adjusted net income.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

If the world was nothing more than a map directing Duane to his next meal, then “eyes in his stomach” was an apt description.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el


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