Direct
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- It turned out that there was no security to inform and direct fans to the less crowded pens, the police actually prevented ambulances from entering the stadium after the fence broke, and the fans were trying to shuttle the injured out to the ambulances (which the police also prevented).
Source: Mis-blamed - When Back Story or other crucial information needs to be delivered quickly from character to character (and we do mean quickly, Talking Is a Free Action is not in effect), some characters will use telepathy, holograms, or direct-to-brain downloads to inform others.
Source: Exposition Beam - The idea is that a writer can draw on his or her own personal experiences to inform their story and give it life and verisimilitude, not that the writer can only write about things that they have direct personal first-hand experience of.
Source: Write What You Know
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Inform and Direct. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/direct/inform
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