Directions
Routes and directions are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Routes" instead a noun "Directions".
Routes
Both words in one sentence
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The player's choices push them in one of two directions: towards "pure love" routes or "love/hate" routes.
Source: Bastard Boyfriend -
Apparently, it flew around the same routes over Japan for over sixty years until it started deviating and going in random directions for the anime storyline.
Source: Anime / K -
They can also wreck you without warning from behind (as opposed to a shunt) and a bulk of the city doesn't offer alternate routes, meaning even if you're in a cooldown area, you could be surrounded in one or both directions of swarming cops coming to continue the chase.
Source: Video Game / Need for Speed
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