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present participle of direct.

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directing

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administrative adj.
executive adj.
governing adj.
managerial adj.
operating adj.
predominant adj.
presiding adj.
sovereign adj.
standardizing adj.
supervisory adj.
administration n.
conservation n.

ADJECTIVE

administrative

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bureaucratic departmental governmental legislative managerial organizational policy-making regulatory supervisory

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authoritative central commanding controlling deciding decisive directive directorial executive governing in charge in control jurisdictional official presiding regulative ruling superintending supervising

ADJECTIVE

executive

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managerial

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governing ruling

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controlling decision-making managing

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subordinate

ADJECTIVE

governing

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administrative dominant guiding ruling

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absolute ascendant conducting controlling determining dominating executive mastering ordering overseeing restraining superintending

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authoritative gubernatorial influential magisterial presidential regulatory supervisory supreme

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inferior subordinate

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powerless tributary

ADJECTIVE

managerial

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bureaucratic commanding directorial governmental legislative ministerial organizational policy-making regulatory supervisory

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authoritative central controlling deciding decisive departmental directive executive governing in charge in control jurisdictional official presiding regulative ruling superintending supervising

ADJECTIVE

operating

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performing running

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accomplishing administering conducting contriving determining driving executing finishing fulfilling guiding maintaining managing manipulating moving ordering practicing regulating revolving serving spinning supervising sustaining transacting turning using wielding

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at work

ADJECTIVE

predominant

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dominant dominating main potent prevailing prevalent weighty

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absolute all-powerful almighty arbitrary ascendant authoritative capital chief controlling effective efficacious governing holding the reins imperious influential leading mighty official omnipotent overbearing overpowering paramount predominate preponderant primary prime principal prominent reigning sovereign superior superlative supervisory supreme surpassing transcendent

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inferior minor secondary subordinate unimportant

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inconsequential trivial

ADJECTIVE

presiding

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controlling governing managing

ADJECTIVE

sovereign

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absolute autonomous unlimited

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ascendant chief imperial independent principal royal ruling

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commanding effectual efficacious excellent guiding highest lofty majestic monarchal monarchial overbearing paramount predominant predominate preponderant prevalent regal regnant reigning self-governed supreme

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dependent limited restricted

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minor secondary subordinate unimportant

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inferior submissive subservient

ADJECTIVE

standardizing

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balancing controlling determining normalizing regularizing regulating shifting

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directive regulative

ADJECTIVE

supervisory

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bureaucratic departmental governmental legislative managerial ministerial organizational policy-making regulatory

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NOUN

administration

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agency authority control government legislation organization policy rule

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application charge command conduct conducting direction dispensation disposition distribution enforcement execution governing guidance handling jurisdiction order oversight performance power provision regulation running strategy superintendence supervision surveillance

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administering overseeing

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disorganization disregard failure ignorance inefficiency lawlessness mismanagement neglect

NOUN

conservation

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care conservancy control maintenance management protection supervision

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attention custody economy governing guardianship keeping safekeeping salvation saving stewardship storage supervising sustentation upkeep

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cherishing conserving guarding managing preserval preserving protecting safeguarding

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ignorance neglect

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negligence

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destruction spending squandering waste

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But in Robertson’s latest directing project, the Netflix docuseries “The One About Matthew Perry,” the Big Bad isn’t so much a who but a what.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

ALL BUT ONE of McDonagh’s movies have been Oscar-nominated, starting with his very first directing effort, Six Shooter, a half-hour black comedy that won best live action short film in 2006.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Meanwhile, Carragher is directing the construction of a related microscope at Biohub's imaging facility in Redwood City.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

“We are instead directing that equity to the public benefit,” the company’s statement said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Once we had passed Hampstead he drew out a large-scale map from his coat-pocket and began directing Maxim to Barnet.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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