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guide

[gahyd] / gaɪd /




Usage

What are other ways to say guide? The verb guide implies continuous presence or agency in showing or indicating a course: to guide a traveler. To conduct is to precede or escort to a place, sometimes with a degree of ceremony: to conduct a guest to his room. To direct is to give information for guidance, or instructions or orders for a course of procedure: to direct someone to the station. To lead is to bring onward in a course, guiding by contact or by going in advance; hence, figuratively, to influence or induce to some course of conduct: to lead a procession; to lead astray.

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Dykes was joined on his trek by local guide Obed Temba Tuyumvire as well as videographer Will Perez, who has been helping chart the journey with regular social media posts.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

If the same left-right differences are found in people, the discovery could help guide more personalized treatments for arrhythmias, difficult-to-treat angina, and stress-induced 'broken-heart' syndrome.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

Boston’s Logan International Airport is holding a contest for a “voice that feels like home” to greet and guide travelers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

An insider's guide to Budget Day: 'Don't fall off the kerb'

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Owen had been working as a tour guide for his parents since he was ten.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Their unusual behavior has appeared in field guides and was previously documented during a field observation, but scientists had not fully understood the movements that made it possible.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

He turned to Noah Davis, Henry Taylor, Lauren Halsey, Mark Bradford — who co-founded Art + Practice — and others he considers “masters in every way,” as his guides from the past into today.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

If you enjoyed it and would like more essays, entertaining guides and recipes sent straight to your inbox, subscribe here.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Mountain escort Wang Zhoutao guides a client up the steep steps of Mount Huangshan.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

When you lifted the seat of the bench there were travel guides, road maps, and well-worn paperbacks under it.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

For the current second quarter, the company guided for adjusted earnings between $9.00 and $9.40 a share on revenue between $4.7 billion and $4.9 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The company guided for fourth-quarter revenue of $3.75 billion to $3.95 billion and earnings of $3.36 to $3.79 a share.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

A famed dusky shark in South Korea has returned to the canal where she had been stuck for a month, just one day after authorities said they had successfully guided her out, local media report.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

The pluripotent stem cell would then be guided into becoming a neural stem cell, which is more specialized and can produce cells found in the nervous system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

Every night Leander swam across to her, guided by the light, some say of the lighthouse in Sestus, some of a torch Hero always set blazing on the top of a tower.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

After guiding them to the 2022-23 Championship title, Kompany was unable to keep the Clarets in the Premier League.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

But wait — he has no soul, just wires, processors, fluid and whatnot, plus a set of AI personas guiding his interactions with the human world.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

For 2026, the company is guiding for sales growth excluding currency movements in the mid-single-digit range.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

But still, “the spirits are guiding Yamel, helping her make sense of the world, because she’s treading in patterns that have been playing out for centuries.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Were units of information guiding each of these processes?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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