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
  • Light said her career as a drag queen was a direct product of the confidence God gave her.
    — Rachel Royster, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The limited direct product overlap does not ensure a smooth close.
    — Thomas Gryta, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Withers’ hearings, Mills said, were a direct product of his actions.
    — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Its foreign direct product rule that stops actors like Huawei, which try to circumvent controls.
    — Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • Commerce is looking to tackle a major loophole with the establishment of two new foreign direct product rules.
    — Maria Curi, Axios, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Her extraordinary students are a direct product of her teachings.
    — Sergio Carmona, Jewish Journal, 29 June 2018
  • Google and OpenAI have focused on frontier models and direct product surfaces.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • 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 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
  • 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 Oversight Board is a direct product of Facebook’s woes after the 2016 election.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 28 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This could be done by segmenting clients and analyzing buyer trends and habits, then using this information to focus and direct products to specific customers.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Export controls, even when supercharged by the foreign direct product rule, are far less straightforward to apply than the Biden administration hoped.
    — Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024
  • These absurd physical transformations are a direct product of our control over chicken’s genetics and environment.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Its unlikely that the weekend’s rainstorm is a direct product of the El Niño cycle, which forecasters predict will emerge sometime in May through July, said Schoenfeld.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Retailers who are partners with ChatGPT provide OpenAI with direct product feeds, which help make sure listings are more up-to-date.
    — Gabrielle Fonrouge,melissa Repko, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Uzbek terrorism in Europe and the United States is therefore not a direct product of Uzbekistan’s policies but a result of difficult integration processes in host countries.
    — Marlene Laruelle, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Meanwhile, the Biden administration reportedly is considering using an export control called the foreign direct product rule on allies that continue selling chipmaking tools and equipment to China.
    — Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 22 July 2024
  • Eastern platforms like TikTok Shop, Shein, Temu, and AliExpress are disrupting backend supply chain e‑commerce inWestern markets by delivering factory-direct products and reshaping e-commerce and consumer behavior.
    — Kristin Westcott Grant, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025

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