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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.

Example Sentences

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These structures act as pathways that guide electrical charges through the material.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2026

The new and improved Getty will also be outfitted with new signs to better guide visitors through the campus.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

“Right now the alternative is really nothing to guide any type of personalization around how to manage expectations around GLP-1 use.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Stevie is blind and deaf and needs to be rehomed with the other, who has become her guide.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

I thanked her, gathered up my books, thanked her again, and let another bookstore person guide me to the cash register.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows




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