direct
verb (used with object)
to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc..
have been directing
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present perfect progressiveof direct.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Those features have been directing a perfectly oriented supply of cold west-southwesterly wind down the entire lengths of the lakes; in the case of Lake Erie, that’s a 240-mile fetch.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2022
I don’t think they could have gotten any other directors to do these episodes, because they would have been directing an episode of television for 2½ months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
For outside observers, it’s often been difficult to determine where Ford and some other foundations have been directing their investments.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2021
One silver lining of the Facebook crash is the emergence of other platforms that have been directing more traffic to many sites in the past year, even as Facebook sends far less.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2018
She might have been directing which tennis sets the girls were to play in.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
