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a book that contains mandates and instructions for actions or conduct
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Recent Examples of directory
See the details Ohio Costco warehouse locations Costco operates 13 locations in Ohio, according to the chain's warehouse directory.
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Alex Perry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Mar. 2026
Dreamer targets consumers, Manus focuses on businesses and Moltbook acts as a digital directory for all those AI assistants.
—Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2026
That section of its website has a directory that connects farmers to counseling and peer-support resources nationwide.
—Sheree R. Curry, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
Inside the building's entry hall, a directory lists numerous hospice agencies that line the long tiled hallways, although the building's owner claims many are no longer there.
—Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
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Alex Perry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Mar. 2026
Dreamer targets consumers, Manus focuses on businesses and Moltbook acts as a digital directory for all those AI assistants.
—Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2026
That section of its website has a directory that connects farmers to counseling and peer-support resources nationwide.
—Sheree R. Curry, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
Inside the building's entry hall, a directory lists numerous hospice agencies that line the long tiled hallways, although the building's owner claims many are no longer there.
—Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for directory
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But several Council members expressed the need for more stakeholder feedback before reaching a decision, in addition to clarity around which sections of city code the penalties would directly apply to.—
Claire Murphy,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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His pro-working-class mantras focused on affordability and child and health care support funded by enforcing corporate tax code while closing loopholes exploited by billionaires registers politically to the left of Thompson, a moderate Democrat.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
27 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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Through a request under a Kentucky open-records law, KFF Health News obtained an informed consent form for the AL16 study used at a public institution, the University of Louisville.—
David Hilzenrath,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2026
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Martha’s father, a law professor, had trained her to be a rational, step-by-step arguer.—
Cassandra Neyenesch,
New Yorker,
29 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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More than 7 million student loan borrowers who have been enrolled in a Biden-era repayment plan will receive notices beginning Friday with instructions to seek a new plan to repay their debt, the Education Department said.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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The candy bars, which are likely to be circulated in unofficial sales channels across Europe, can be identified by a unique batch code assigned to individual bars and when scanned would relay instructions on how to contact KitKat, the company said.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
28 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 31 Mar. 2026.
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