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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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Then he heard the whir of the Ukrainian drone sent to guide him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

"Our study shows that atomic-scale steps can act as effective rails that guide superconducting vortices, and that this guiding effect can be tuned simply by changing the temperature or magnetic field," said Uchihashi.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

A meeting to choose a new agency to guide L.A.’s homeless services broke down when more than 1,500 people sought to vote on the matter online.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Michelin has approached the national tourism board about bringing the guide to the country more than once, with no success.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

“The scientific name for polar bears is Ursus maritimus, which means ‘sea bear,’ ” Owen said, shifting back to his tour guide script.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

During the procedure, an interventional radiologist inserts a thin catheter into an artery and carefully guides it toward the affected blood vessels.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

A team monitoring the livestreams guides the hosts and adjusts the featured products they talk about in real time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Slate’s three decades have seen countless beginner’s guides, staff recommendations, tabulations of game-night commercials, and “Completist” roundups of everything from Pepperidge Farm cookies to Super Bowls.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026

"In psychiatry it's been a problem, and optogenetics has started to address that because we can say, 'these cells are too active' or 'not active enough,' and that guides us in a very powerful way."

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Loretta guides Annabelle out of town on Newburg Road, which has beautiful grassy banks with white houses tucked down long driveways.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

She added that there is also an insufficient number of schools booking guided tours at the site to cover costs.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The decision to make the redundancies comes a week after Arteta was handed a new four-year contract, having guided Arsenal to their first Premier League title since 2004 last season.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Cucinelli had previously guided for 10%-11% growth, guidance that was itself expanded from an initial target of 10%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The company that Warren Buffett guided for years didn’t stick with its tried-and-true investment strategy of purchasing value stocks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

In trails of copper ink guided by an invisible hand, the symbols were applied to the magnificent chest in honor of the gods of the Golden Crescent.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

These champions of “free thought” landed on boldness and strength as guiding stars.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Although the findings do not establish an effective Alzheimer's treatment, they offer a promising tool for guiding future laboratory studies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

He was so excited after guiding the Cavaliers to a 14-9 win over City Section power Birmingham that he spent all night watching film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

He has already won silverware in his time with the Hatters, guiding them to the EFL Trophy, beating Stockport County 3-1 at Wembley in April in front of a crowd of nearly 50,000.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Donations from wealthy white businessmen were essential to getting these projects off the ground, but the guiding force was the black elite.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield


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