direction
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Separately, the House Judiciary Committee has started to reach out to lawyers who were involved in an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, which senior officials at the Justice Department settled at Trump’s direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
The international TopoLight consortium approached the challenge from a different direction.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
Asked why she took this musical direction, the 33-year-old says it was down to "the nostalgia of the indie sound".
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
"I'm quite clear what direction the club needs to go in. It's got to win games."
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
The words were swallowed by the suffocating spray of a skunk, which sent more than a few animals cowering and crying in every direction.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Crashes snared around 50 cars and trucks heading in both directions of the highway linking the capital Sofia to the Black Sea city of Burgas, regional governor Georgi Chalakov told the BTA state news agency.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
The road was shut in both directions early on Sunday and was likely to remain closed "for several hours while recovery and clear up operations continue", the agency said.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
Scientists need to determine not only how many neighboring particles each nanoparticle connects with, but also the directions in which those connections form.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
The dialogue—especially Chris’s—goes off in extravagantly weird directions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
She took the rudder, Ratwin called out directions, and they moved fast across the water; Christopher leaned over the ship’s sides, and within minutes the City of Scholars was out of sight.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 5
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