directions

British

/ daɪ-, dɪˈrɛkʃənz /

plural noun

(sometimes singular) instructions for doing something or for reaching a place

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On the island's downwind side, the satellite captured von Kármán vortex streets, which look like repeating swirls spinning in opposite directions.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

But even that show was more reflective of current cultural problems than prescient, not to mention disconcertingly accurate, about the dreadful directions we were heading.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

Living in Tokyo in the early 1980s when our bakeries didn’t yet sell pita, I found directions in a discarded James Beard cookbook and made my own.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

Morehead outlined his case for why AI and crypto are closely linked — even though valuations in the two sectors have moved in opposite directions — while speaking at Alchemy’s crypto conference in New York.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

The directions are to represent a place we’d like to visit.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

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