directive
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As developments in the Middle East remained in focus over the weekend, President Donald Trump quietly signed a directive hastening the review of certain psychedelic drugs.
From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026
Kenya's directive to cut VAT on fuel is scheduled to last until July.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
If he does not wish to be on life support, for example, this advance-healthcare directive would say so.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026
Flight attendants ordered an evacuation with a terse directive: Grab your passports and boarding passes, leave all luggage, get out.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
The archive reflects the human need to document every deed and directive, to place a veil of administrative tidiness over the disorder of famines and plagues and natural disasters and crimes and wars.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Vocabulary lists containing directive
"When Do Kids Become Adults?" by Laurence Steinberg, et al.
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