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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 social-media company left the high end of its capital-expenditure guide for the year unchanged at $145 billion, while raising the low end by $5 billion to $135 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Doctors use real-time ultrasound imaging to see the nerve and guide the injection precisely.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

If the past is any guide, extreme dispersion among the index’s constituents can only continue for so long.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Workers used nets fixed to floating pontoons late Wednesday to guide the animal gradually, but it dived beneath a net and returned to the canal overnight, authorities said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

A bright lemon-printed fabric caught his eyes, and he barreled up the flight of stairs, nearly bumping into the tour guide, Anjali Singh.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

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From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Her brother Doug has returned from college with a girlfriend named Mary, an amiable busybody who keeps the wine flowing and gently but insistently guides the conversation to the household’s taboo subject.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The spokesperson advised people to read the force's online safety guides, external.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

“I’ve just promoted you to Master of the Helm. The wind no longer guides us,” he says.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

The broader goal is to move beyond treating patients with standardized protocols and toward interventions guided by measurable biological information.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

For the current fiscal second quarter, the company guided for adjusted earnings of between $5.60 and $6.00 a share on revenue between $5 billion and $5.2 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

"The shark was guided to the southern entrance of the North Port Waterfront Park, where a net barrier was installed to prevent it from re-entering," the oceans ministry said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

The company guided for fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of 50 cents to $1.50 a share and average aircraft fuel price of $4.8 a gallon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Kennedy was guided below deck, where he broke down in tears, his body drained and aching, his six-foot-one frame wasted to a skeletal 110 pounds.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

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

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

"It is with great esteem that I wish to acknowledge Your Excellency's strong leadership in guiding your country toward national prosperity with the spirit of a true patriot."

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

From this perspective, the ability to draw on decades of experience could be especially valuable for making judgments, guiding others, and transferring important information between generations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

We danced around the ironing board, with Mami guiding my hand, pressing down on the iron, and standing away for a minute to see me do as she’d taught.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago


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