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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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To an extent, I am letting technology guide me.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Brain activity measurements could eventually provide additional information to help guide these decisions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

“Hopefully they respect the boundaries that we have,” said Mark Anthony Castillo, a 34-year-old tour guide in Basco, the Batanes’ capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The Office of Violence Prevention would be required to develop a plan for a “peer navigator model” to guide survivors through the restraining order system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Knowing that I would never find it, I walked along beside Black Star and let him guide us.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

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

These trained guides work with patients and healthcare teams to connect people with medical care, services, and other resources.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 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

Manufactured consensus too often guides the application of the law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

“Cheat guides for about six dozen different video games. Looks like cheating is a hobby for our young friend Jake here.”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

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

She was unusually harsh with Security Minister Omar García Harfuch, a confidant who has guided her policies throughout her political career, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

It offers only guided tours to small groups by prior arrangement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

“Any decisions we make will be guided by what is in the best interests of both current and future students.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

She watched as guards guided Frank to the witness stand.

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

Lucas Lu walked by the protest, guiding two black-and-white humanoid robots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

He has already won silverware in his time with the Hatters, guiding them to the EFL Trophy, beating Stockport County 3-1 at Wembley in April in front of a crowd of nearly 50,000.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

But this fall, “one nice thing” has become something of a guiding star.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

Yeti also backed the fiscal 2026 outlook it provided last month, guiding for sales growth of 7% to 8% on adjusted earnings per share of $2.94 to $3 for this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

What should be the core philosophy, the guiding principles?

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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