directive

Example Sentences

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After awakening, the biome’s newly cultivated gut flora will respond to your neurological directive, allowing you to ultimately control when — and where — your wind breaks.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Maxim, 49, said the health ministry directive was only a recommendation.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Lin’s ruling bars any implementation of Hegseth’s directive issued via social media.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

John Sandweg, who oversaw ICE when the original directive was adopted under President Barack Obama, said, “Back then, we were operating from a lens that family unity is everything.”

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

Thirty- year-old Cesare Milani in the Italian boat shouted the same directive to his stroke, Enrico Garzelli.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown