directed
Americanadjective
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guided, regulated, or managed.
a carefully directed program.
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subject to direction, guidance, regulation, etc.
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pointed, aimed, or sent toward a place or object.
Rooms need to have high air exchange rates, rapid air velocities, and directed airflows to minimize particle concentration.
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Mathematics. (of an angle or vector) having positive or negative direction or orientation assigned.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order that directed the state to review policies and practices that help displaced workers and efforts to improve training for the unemployed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The model is the first to directly connect many randomly directed ejection events with the motion astronomers suspect white dwarfs receive.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Bisignano’s lawyer denied the allegations, stating he never directed anyone to engage in surveillance or look through employee communications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
A review of proposed grants shows several are being directed to more traditional human rights purposes, but even some of those have raised concerns in and outside the State Department.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
In a scene that sounded remarkably like what Voight had just told Crandell, the force of the eruption was directed laterally, out from the side of the volcano.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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