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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Outright acquisitions have become tricky territory for big tech companies generally, and Nvidia’s commanding lead in AI ensures that any deal would be closely examined by regulators.
The shift liberates her holiday shopping, says Nussen, lead lighting designer at Consumer’s Lighting, a company she runs with her husband.
SINGAPORE—Chinese leader Xi Jinping struck an upbeat note on the world’s second-largest economy, saying Beijing will meet its 2025 growth target as it gains ground in its quest to become a leading technological power.
"Microplastics do not just pollute aquatic environments as visible particles. They also create an invisible chemical plume that changes as they weather," said lead author Jiunian Guan of Northeast Normal University.
From Science Daily
"We did the simplest thing that could be done. We just mapped them and pieced them together," said Zaki, who led the research.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
