directly
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"The fact that 40,000 people have backed this petition so quickly is a powerful message that I am taking directly to my colleagues in government," she said.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
“We reiterate our Hold rating on Rio shares due to relative valuation and our preference for miners more directly leveraged to copper,” the bank says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
The material can expand by as much as 5%, allowing researchers to directly form optical structures such as microlenses and diffraction gratings on its surface.
From Science Daily • Apr. 21, 2026
But many Social Security analysts, including Copeland, think most efforts by Congress and the president to shore up Social Security won’t directly affect people who are already retired or close to retirement.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026
He was sitting on a low limb of the bur oak tree, directly above my net, looking down at the apples.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Vocabulary lists containing directly
"We Grow Accustomed to the Dark" by Emily Dickinson
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Immediately
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