Current
Direction
Direction noun - A prevailing or general movement or inclination.
Usage example: some older people worry about the overall direction that political discourse has taken lately
Current is a synonym for direction in tendency topic. Sometimes you can use "Current" instead a noun "Direction", if it concerns topics such as course.
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How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Real Time Weapon Change: When aiming, you can use the d-pad to switch among the four types of guns (pressing the direction of the current type instead reloads that gun).
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Some of the Annotators will preemptively threaten to quit if their current video looks to be going in a particularly stupid direction.
Source: Screw This, I'm Outta Here! -
Using it to attack an entirely different enemy, one not even in the same direction, sends his current foe flying away.
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Direction and Current. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/current/direction
Current & Direction. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/current/direction>.
Direction or Current. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/current/direction.
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