direct
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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