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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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Ten years after World War I, a decade during which governments began to mobilize public opinion on an unprecedented scale, Edward Bernays offered “Propaganda,” a remarkably frank guide to mass persuasion.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

"When you're in this situation and you've got a guide dog and you can't do anything, it does make certain things grind to a halt."

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

At just 20 years old, Nomark offers his 500,000 Instagram followers a how-to guide for rendering the cameras useless, raising awareness about the devices.

From Barron's Aug. 9, 2026

The Trailblazers will play in the Mission League along with Harvard-Westlake, which has hired professional flag player and prominent club coach Asha Prithiraj to guide the Wolverines through their inaugural season.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2026

I was tired of knitting with only the light from the hearth to guide my stitches.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

"This has made Pakistan a major overseas base for Nepali Sherpas. And while helping foreign climbers fulfil their dreams, many guides have themselves completed the 14 peaks," Iswari says.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

For the full year, Paramount now guides for adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $3.8 billion to $3.9 billion, up from a prior outlook of $3.8 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Nepal's mountain guides spend each spring leading international clients up Nepal's highest mountains as guides or porters.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

Users create maps, fictional diary entries, survival guides, found-footage videos and first-person explorations that collectively expand the world.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train grandly designated in railway guides as the Taurus Express.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Navy has guided a number of tankers through the strait, taking some pressure off energy markets, it remains an effort around the margins.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

The Dutchman, 47, guided the Reds to their 20th league title in his debut season but finished fifth in the Premier League and was sacked on 30 May.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Castro is remembered by supporters as having guided Cuba through multiple crises -- US-backed invasions, embargoes, assassination plots and the intense hardship caused by the collapse of Cuba's main ally and benefactor, the Soviet Union.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

Apparel maker On Holding saw its shares slump in premarket trade as the Zurich-headquartered, U.S.-listed company guided to weaker-than-expected sales for the year.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

I guided Oliver and his dad over to the wheel.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Emanuel is best known as executive chairman of Hollywood talent agency WME, and rose to prominence guiding the careers of stars including Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Under the law, each state can create its own guiding principles on how to oversee its coast, and federal officials must honor this state coastal management plan once it’s certified.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

Two of the 15 times he summited Everest he did so guiding double-leg amputees up the mountain.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

He coached the Wallabies -- the Australian men's rugby union team -- for four years from 1984, guiding them to a rare northern hemisphere "Grand Slam" over England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

All at once, I remember that day when he taught me how to tie my shoes, two rabbit ears twisting together, those chapped fingers guiding mine.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina




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