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directly

[dih-rekt-lee, dahy-] / dɪˈrɛkt li, daɪ- /




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Those eligible will be contacted directly through the NHS App, by text and email.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

A fixed-indexed annuity, however, tracks the stock market index without directly investing your money in the market itself.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 12, 2026

Ending “deep currency undervaluations…is the one policy change that would directly bring balance to global trade,” Brad Setser and Shahin Vallée, former economic advisers to the U.S. and French governments, respectively, recently wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

The researchers emphasized that this was an observational study, meaning it cannot prove that strength training directly caused the reductions in mortality risk.

From Science Daily • Jun. 12, 2026

When they got to their yard, they went directly to the sandbox where Sam's big tin shovel was lying beside a dented kitchen pot.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry




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