directly
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If you plan to watch the eclipse, remember never to look directly at the Sun.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
Data from an international study due later this year will pit ivonescimab directly against Keytruda.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
Future space-based gravitational wave observatories should be able to detect these binaries directly.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
After the sales, she owned no other company stock directly.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
The gleaming eyes still cast their reflections over the water, and now that they were directly below them they could see that the eyes were hollow.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
Vocabulary lists containing directly
"We Grow Accustomed to the Dark" by Emily Dickinson
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Immediately
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