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lead

[leed] / lid /








Usage

What are other ways to say lead?

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. Guide implies continuous presence or agency in showing or indicating a course: to guide a traveler. To conduct is to precede or escort them 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. 


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Bruno is the lead author of a new study published in the Journal of Propulsion and Power.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

In a head-to-head matchup, Raman would lead Bass 32% to 28%, according to a poll of registered voters conducted last month by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, which was co-sponsored by The Times.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Dr Emma Nichols, from Oxford University's Museum of Natural History, was called in to lead the excavation and said it was the "longest exposed continuous sauropod trackway in the world".

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

The SpaceX IPO could lead to 8% of America’s current-account deficit being refinanced in a single day.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

‘But listen to me. You must keep up the pretence a bit longer. We will have to change to a different train at Rotterdam. Be strong and take your lead from me.’

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler




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