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redirect

[ree-di-rekt, -dahy-] / ˌri dɪˈrɛkt, -daɪ- /


VERB
sublimate
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But I’d like to gently intercept your hand on the way there and redirect it toward wherever you keep your vinegar.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

While efforts such as Nanjing’s might redirect marriages to nicer locations, demographers are skeptical that they will do much to address the overall issue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Rather than supplying energy evenly across the brain, the nervous system may redirect resources depending on behavioral state, memory demands, and other internal needs.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal is administered by Services Australia, the main hub to redirect users to government services.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The thing about our electronic gadgets is that they can easily redirect our focus.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

"Tubulin redirects the activity of these proteins by giving them something productive to do."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026

Spirit’s website redirects visitors to a landing page about its shutdown, which advises its ticket holders against traveling to airports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

Software stocks could recover by developing their own AI products or if a slowdown in AI infrastructure spending redirects investment back to the sector.

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

Effective leadership redirects that attention outward toward customers, purpose and shared impact.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 18, 2025

It redirects our attention to the great source and fountainhead of human life.

From The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger

River broke out and redirected itself by a mile near Compton, wiping out neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

That result redirected their attention toward the axon's physical properties.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Some capacity could be redirected toward safety testing, improving models and serving customers, but those workloads may not replace curtailed frontier training dollar for dollar.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

The fund follows William's decision to stop personally benefiting from the £1.5m annual rent generated by Dartmoor Prison, with the funding redirected into the local community.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

If finishing college and becoming an artist had been a dream for my father, he quickly redirected his hopes, using his wages to help pay for his younger brother’s degree in architecture instead.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

The prime minister's spokesman insisted the policy would be funded by redirecting "savings" identified by departments to cover the cost of the ID scheme.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Commerce’s undersecretary for security, Alan Estevez, started the bureaucratic process for the blacklist, but got a call redirecting the path.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

These actions included things like changing the title on bank accounts and other property, redirecting household bills, canceling credit cards, consolidating retirement accounts, making Roth conversions and giving away money.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

The city has “exceeded expectations” in food recovery, he said, saving 80 million meals that would have been thrown out and redirecting them to people in need.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

“In sympathy, most of what you are doing is redirecting energy. Sympathetic links are how the energy travels.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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