Direct
Establish
Establish verb - To gain full recognition or acceptance of.
Direct and establish are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Direct" instead a verb "Establish".
Nearby Words: establishment, establishing
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The original novels establish the concept of "skin talk", namely direct, uninterceptible communications performed by making direct physical contact with the machine with which you want to speak.
Source: Space Is Noisy -
While this has no direct effect on the story, it does establish that not everyone in this society is happy with this kind of eternal youth.
Source: Film / Daybreakers - Sard Harker himself is perhaps a relative of Kay, although they're not explicitly connected (the details that are given are at least sufficient to establish that he's not a direct ancestor).
Source: Literature / The Midnight Folk
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