direct
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Fortunately, there is a more direct way to play this particular vision: EssilorLuxottica EL 0.63%increase; green up pointing triangle , the under-the-radar $100-billion company that manufactures the tech giant’s Ray-Ban smartglasses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Nearby is the computer screen of the CAPCOM, or capsule communicator, the person responsible for all direct communication with the astronauts.
From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026
Hastings now has direct or indirect ownership of 21,163,516 Netflix common shares, or about 0.5% of the shares outstanding.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
This discovery fills that gap and provides direct evidence of when these defining features first appeared.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
In general, then, there was a direct and nearly perfect correlation between demography and ideology—that is, between the ratio of blacks to whites in the population and the reluctance to consider abolition.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
