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Recent Examples of directory
Spectators looking for parking during the marathon in West Hollywood will find a directory of municipal lots and parking structures online.
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Holly Andres, Daily News, 6 Mar. 2026
Find out more about him online in the Register's staff directory.
—Phillip Sitter, Des Moines Register, 6 Mar. 2026
Politi, over a career spanning more than five decades, shaped the global contemporary art scene through the establishment of a publishing house, an art-world directory, a museum, and a biennial, bringing cutting-edge art movements in Italy as well as those around the world to a wide audience.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Mar. 2026
All while state regulators rarely fine these companies for directory errors.
—Marissa Martinez, NBC news, 3 Mar. 2026
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Holly Andres, Daily News, 6 Mar. 2026
Find out more about him online in the Register's staff directory.
—Phillip Sitter, Des Moines Register, 6 Mar. 2026
Politi, over a career spanning more than five decades, shaped the global contemporary art scene through the establishment of a publishing house, an art-world directory, a museum, and a biennial, bringing cutting-edge art movements in Italy as well as those around the world to a wide audience.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Mar. 2026
All while state regulators rarely fine these companies for directory errors.
—Marissa Martinez, NBC news, 3 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for directory
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The process runs through Transportation and Public Works, but the final decision belongs to Austin City Council, which must pass an ordinance, according to city code.—
Dante Motley,
Austin American Statesman,
20 Mar. 2026
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Whatever used to be fun (coding your first game, say) is replaced by something that’s not (debugging your code).—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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Unlike most other defendants in cases the statute was intended to remedy, Moss did not carry out the violence herself.—
Pamela Colloff,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
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The commission agreed to allow Earthrise to mow the property only once between May and October, rather than five times as required by statute, as the company said more mowings could negatively affect native pollinators and habitats.—
Olivia Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
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Sharaa, who has signed a five-year transitional document that serves as a de facto constitution, seems aware of the risks and has thus far been able to outflank his potential rivals and saboteurs, keeping his country out of the ongoing regional war.—
Alvaro Vargas Llosa,
Oc Register,
26 Mar. 2026
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Voters, in approving adding gambling to the state constitution, approved language assigning up to 15,000 slot machines divided between those facilities.—
Bryan P. Sears,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Mar. 2026
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In a March 13 reply brief, the government argued that federal law allows the attorney general to make successive 120-day interim appointments when vacancies persist.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Mar. 2026
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Following his military service, Mueller earned a law degree from the University of Virginia.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Mar. 2026
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The loss, in the first of thousands of product-liability lawsuits against Meta, Google and other social networks, is the kind of black eye that often leads to an increase in government regulations.—
Kurt Wagner,
Bloomberg,
26 Mar. 2026
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But a change in state law last year forced the county to roll back its regulations.—
Mary Ramsey
March 25,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Mar. 2026
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Refine a process with a peer so everyone’s work runs more smoothly, or write down instructions for something others need to know.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Mar. 2026
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FedEx said in a statement its flight crew followed instructions from air traffic control and landed safely.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Mar. 2026
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Semenya, who was assigned female at birth in South Africa and has high natural testosterone levels, won a European Court of Human Rights judgment in her years-long legal challenge to track and field's rules which did not overturn them.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2026
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Sweeney Bell had a tepid response, however, to a recent controversy in which dozens of local Democrats were kicked off the ballot for breaking an Indiana Democratic Party rule.—
Jordan Smith,
IndyStar,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Directory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/directory. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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