direct
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Starting Friday, nine transit hubs, including Union Station, Crenshaw Station and downtown Long Beach, will host shuttles that provide direct access to the stadium for $1.75 each way, according to Metro.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Experimental validation and whole-body analyses in worms helped reveal a direct link between gradual molecular alterations and broader aging processes.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
Although there are no direct references, such Surrealist and Expressionist tropes as Salvador Dalí’s melting watches and Edvard Munch’s screaming bridge-walker seem to lurk in Ms. Butterly’s aesthetic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Some going direct to Massachusetts, where Scotland play their first two group games in Boston, with others travelling to neighbouring states.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Everyone who met him noticed his thick football neck and his great huge head and his overbearing manner, which was interpreted as both admirably direct and a mask.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing direct
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Ancient Greece, Lessons 1–3
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Academy Awards, List 6
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