direct
verb (used with object)
to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc..
self-directing
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a word derived from
direct.
Example Sentences
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McNicholas said he became “maniacal” about saving and investing, self-directing his investments largely into index funds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Thespian self-directing tends toward the blustery, for reasons that are easy to understand.
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2012
Later disseminating becomes irrelevant considering rapidity of technological change.What is now needed is classroom activity designed to enhance and increase student self-directing consciousness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2010
Instead of performing a single tedious task like attaching windshield wipers as cars whiz past on a long assembly line, employees would work together in self-directing teams of six to 15 people.
From Time Magazine Archive
Armed with the talisman of this knowledge, he boldly enters the field of causation and thenceforward becomes a self-directing factor in his own evolution.
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson
