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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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Nearly 200 nations were due to agree how these landmark findings should guide efforts to protect nature but some countries "did not want to acknowledge them", the French delegate added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

The 79-year-old American has lived in Japan for nearly 40 years, working as a tour guide.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

All of this is to say that he’s the perfect guide for today’s mission — getting to know this particular spacecraft.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Caution and patience should guide us going forward.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

We followed our guide single file—the aisle was not wide enough for two—fighting back the claustrophobia of these platforms rising everywhere above us.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Schoenbrun confidently guides readers down winding, interconnected roads, bouncing between online cults and peculiar digital ephemera to weave a gripping search for truth in a time when the internet has made everything fiction.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

"A practical framework that guides our cooperation over the next several years. I will note a critically important next several years."

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

The company guides for a fourth-quarter operating margin of 26.0%, including a roughly 120 basis point impact from the layoffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

On the TV, Halliday guides his square protagonist into the game’s secret room, where the words created by warren robinett appear in the center of the screen.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

It previously guided for an adjusted loss between 30 cents and 65 cents a share, and analysts are expecting an adjusted loss of 40 cents a share.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The host was once positioned as an irreverent comedian whose political satire was guided by his no-BS take on Capitol Hill and American culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

For years, researchers believed that tissue-resident memory T cells, specialized immune cells that remain in the body's tissues after an infection and respond quickly if the same threat returns, were guided mainly by chemical signals.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Di Matteo had spectacularly guided the Blues to FA Cup and Champions League success as caretaker boss six months earlier, but paid the price for a poor start in the defence of their European title.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Lissa went straight to Miss Lilian’s bedroom, almost as if she’d been guided there.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

"The event team continually assessed the mountain weather forecast in the build-up to and throughout the event, with competitor safety guiding every decision," they added.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 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

“Come with me,” the chaplain said, putting her arm around Josie’s father, guiding him to his feet.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix


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