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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That led to Feldberg discovering other areas of interest such as fitness and more specifically, pet parrots.
From BBC
Nonconsensual AI-generated images have since appeared on X, leading the company to change some of its policies and triggering scrutiny from tech watchdogs in the EU.
Germany’s Laura Nolte, who led heading into the fourth and final heat, finished four one-hundredths of a second behind in the combined times and took silver.
From Los Angeles Times
And that is when they realised something as mundane as the exposed brick wall in Lucy's bedroom could give them a lead.
From BBC
But worse, it is terrible for the children in the states these governors lead.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
