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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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The connectome offers real biological data that may help guide the design of artificial agents that move through virtual worlds, systems that are increasingly used to study intelligence and improve AI training.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

Having the Local Nature Recovery Strategy to guide the volunteers has been really helpful, Holden added.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Her North Korean tour guide said EVs were preferred because they were better for the environment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Discretion that is “suitably directed and limited” would “ensure … the sentencing authority is apprised of the information relevant to the imposition of sentence and provided with standards to guide its use of that information.”

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026

I thanked her, gathered up my books, thanked her again, and let another bookstore person guide me to the cash register.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows




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