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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

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

But if our A.I. future winds up somewhere on the more dystopian end of the spectrum, won’t you want your guide through it to be a cute little guy?

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

Doctors used real-time X-ray imaging, known as fluoroscopy, to guide the catheter and deliver the particles to the targeted arteries.

From Science Daily ● 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

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

Abbot guides blue shark snorkelling trips off of Pembrokeshire and was on a scheduled snorkelling trip in the Celtic Sea on 25 September when he discovered the rare find.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The car drives through a special, blocked-off section where a squadron of police guides us through.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

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

Williams said he was "not surprised" but that criminal investigations "should never be guided by an end date" imposed on them.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The process, guided by the app, is relatively straightforward: fill the test with saliva by sucking on it for 60 seconds, wait 20 minutes, scan the test, get results.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

After further reflection I have recognized that each generation’s thinking is guided by its experiences growing up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

In 1851, guided by the strength of Kate’s mediumship at further séances, Partridge and about twenty other men and women established one of the first organized Spiritualist groups in America.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

He cites Black cultural figures like the queen of salsa Celia Cruz, American fashion journalist André Leon Talley, the late French singer and dancer Josephine Baker and political activist Assata Shakur as guiding lights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Transport expert and author Prof Jon Shaw, of the University of Plymouth, says the idea of a "single guiding mind" should create "a better planned railway that's more aligned to the customer".

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 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

Clicking his tongue, the stranger tugs his reins left, guiding his horse away.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes


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