direct
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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