lead
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.
Example Sentences
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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
You'll be the one to smell opportunity, and to lead your company toward it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
“SpaceX is happening on Friday, but we may be getting OpenAI and Anthropic later in the year,” Sam Taube, NerdWallet’s lead investing writer, said in an interview.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
"Life was pretty nice during the Ediacaran, so the need for sex was rather limited," said lead author Dr. Emily Mitchell from Cambridge's Department of Zoology.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
Had Brickbane somehow known that Clare’s stubborn choices would lead him to this very fate?
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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