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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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Takashi Yamazaki returns to direct the story, which sees a beast threatening Japan while the nation is still recovering from an earlier monster’s attack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Instead, it announced plans to seek direct talks with both Tshisekedi and Kabila in pursuit of what it called a "genuine and inclusive national dialogue".

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 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

The sampled points might be located too far from the most direct connection, forcing the algorithm to estimate a much longer route.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

When responding to disasters, one challenge for PIH and all other NGOs has been to direct as much funding as possible into on-the-ground projects.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Peter Berg directs a Netflix film starring Bill Skarsgård and Nicholas Galitzine about a football game played by Marines in the South Pacific on Dec. 24, 1944.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Pawel Pawlikowski directs a spare drama about the Nobel-winning author and his daughter returning to Germany after World War II.

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

We get to the Hub, but he directs me to a trailer located beside the admin building, where the Director has an office.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

In 2023, Payne told The Times that a pilot written by Hemingson, as well as the 1935 French film “Merlusse,” written and directed by Marcel Pagnol, served as inspiration for “The Holdovers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

“If this is all about a way to look at shrinking ourselves into being only a Swiss bank, well I don’t really see our flow of assets being directed to Switzerland.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 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

The state governor, Angelo Ngot Mayar, sent his condolences to bereaved families and directed security agencies to evacuate the wounded.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The raps directed him to apply at Rochester’s railroad office, though there were no jobs available.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

By directing powerful ultraviolet lasers at helium atoms, researchers produced X-rays with substantially higher energies than the standard model predicts.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

Joseph Kosinski, the director behind “F1” and “Top Gun: Maverick,” is directing “Miami Vice ’85.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

By directing laser energy onto smaller magnetic regions, future memory devices could potentially hold more data without increasing their physical size.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

Frith in his element, of course, directing Robert with a lift of his eyebrows, and myself rather hot and flustered with a monstrous silver tea-pot and kettle that I never knew how to manage.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier


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