How to Use direct product in a Sentence

direct product

noun
  • The song and videos are direct products of that daring spirit.
    Kat Bein, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The Oversight Board is a direct product of Facebook’s woes after the 2016 election.
    Steven Levy, Wired, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The second group was a direct product of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the racist anti-immigrant group that committed violent acts in many parts of the country.
    Todd Richmond, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2018
  • This touchdown is a direct product of giving Mayfield a clear read while taking advantage of an open middle of the field.
    Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Reuters earlier reported on some of these measures, but not on the plans to use the foreign direct product rule, or FDPR.
    Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The limited direct product overlap does not ensure a smooth close.
    Thomas Gryta, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Her company was the direct product of a catalytic shift in the wake of the tragic and nation-changing 9/11 terrorist attacks.
    Amanda Randone, refinery29.com, 18 May 2020
  • Its foreign direct product rule that stops actors like Huawei, which try to circumvent controls.
    Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Their attitudes and actions, Taylor argues, were direct products of the code of honor that defined their elite social and racial standing.
    Drew Faust, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The work of influencing has always been a direct product of the conditions of making a living in America, not an anomaly.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The foreign direct product rule was deployed on Chinese company Huawei last year, and their annual revenue dropped sharply.
    Ed O'Keefe, Sara Cook, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Much of the economic weakness is a direct product of his campaign-style clampdowns to crush Covid and, starting last year, tame a four-decade-old property market boom that officials have warned may be a bubble.
    Lingling Wei, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
  • That's where collaboration between sales and product comes in—building a channel between the two teams where feedback can be turned into direct product initiatives.
    Vanessa Dreifuss, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The discipline of Black studies, which originated in the late sixties and is now more often referred to as Africana or African American studies, is a direct product of that wave of scholarly revisionism.
    Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Her extraordinary students are a direct product of her teachings.
    Sergio Carmona, Jewish Journal, 29 June 2018
  • In a news release, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett noted that the construction of the mall was the direct product of city and civic leaders working collaboratively to revitalize downtown.
    Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Walsh joined Splice last June, having previously directed product management for media at Apple.
    Colin Stutz, Billboard, 20 Mar. 2019
  • The sanctions against Russia would be implemented under the foreign direct product rule, which allows the government to impose restrictions on how companies use US technology, even in other countries.
    Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2022
  • In that role, the athlete is expected to direct product development and business and marketing initiatives, and expand from basketball into other categories, including golf, women, youth and sportstyle.
    Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In May 2020, the Trump administration tightened the screws further, this time by making Huawei subject to a formerly obscure provision of export-control law called the foreign direct product rule.
    Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 12 July 2023

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