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This year’s event — which was in-person, parking lot-style shindig — featured a fair amount of Voice of San Diego reporting and some direct jabs at VOSD podcast host Scott Lewis.

So direct indexing is allowing us to give them the Nasdaq minus Facebook, or minus web advertising companies.

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It’s time to harness finance and direct it to preserve our planet.

There needed to be some way for the teacher to spend uninterrupted time with virtual students for direct teaching.

Dassault Systèmes had a direct response, as many companies are working very closely with trying to work on solutions to the virus.

He allows the subject to float over to Hitchcock with a calm directness that I admire.

He spoke without notes and inspired confidence in a hurt world because of his directness, honesty, and compassion.

Since then, no president has spoken to the American people with so much candor, directness, and vision.

Mentally, he is full of aggression, thrust, directness, essentially active, not passive.

Their greatest virtue is their uncluttered directness, their fluid mastery of well-researched detail.

Further questions respecting her family, &c., were answered with equal directness and propriety, and with manifest truth.

Her directness had made all possible 'buts' seem ridiculous and futile, and had made the expression of curiosity seem offensive.

He always disdained circumlocution, prided himself upon the directness and simplicity of his address.

The power of any force—moral and religious as well as mechanical—is in proportion to the directness of its application.

As a community, San Francisco exalted personal courage, directness of encounter, straight and effective shooting.

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On this page you'll find 512 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to directness, such as: fairness, frankness, honesty, outspokenness, probity, and simplicity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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