directive
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Bob Knickerbocker of Seattle filled out a dementia directive after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 3, 2026
But perhaps the most bizarre directive in the will: that one-sixteenth of Hughes’s estate, or $156 million, go to Melvin Dummar, a gas-station operator in Utah.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026
The NAP was first introduced in 2007 as the Nitrates Action Plan, to comply with the EU nitrates directive.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026
Rather than retreat from the reaction, she took it as a directive: “There’s something I need to sit with here,” she remembers thinking.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026
She could describe the whole process of composing a novel, ffom the general directive issued by the Planning Committee down to the final touching-up by the Rewrite Squad.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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