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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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Armed with this and a field guide in her home of San Francisco, she set about identifying birds from an early age.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

He told ProPublica that he wants to transform lives and guide students to college, trade school or the military.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

The drones make a grueling job a little bit easier by delivering a hot breakfast in minutes to Sherpa climbers who set out in the middle of the night with just headlamps to guide them.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

This year, visitors "have been telling me that they have escaped the heat in southern parts of Europe," said Terje Viblom Pedersen, a guide who offers tours in southeastern Sweden.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

Unlike most young people in fairy tales, she had both her mother and father to guide her.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

“We are committed to welcoming fans from every background and treating everyone with respect, and that’s what guides us as an organization.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Three city guides then told the story of Glasgow, using staging inspired by Scotland's pioneering textile industry and the River Clyde's shipbuilding heritage.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Across different cultures, they have been viewed as everything from mystical guides that help lost travelers find their way home to ominous creatures associated with bad luck.

From Science Daily Jul. 11, 2026

Davlantes says Alpha’s guides took a vote and opted against being called teachers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

Mother’s proverb now guides me like a map.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

The company in April guided for same-store growth of 5% “or greater,” and saw the full year’s revenue roughly flat in comparison with 2025.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

When you take a guided tour of the nearly completed Harvard-Westlake River Park Sports Complex in Studio City, you lose count how many times you’re saying, “Wow.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

It said this would include Project Brakestop, a government programme to develop low-cost cruise missiles - self-propelled guided weapons which fly like normal aircraft for much of their flight.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

Looking ahead, Lamb Weston guided for adjusted earnings of $2.95 to $3.25 a share in its fiscal 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

The stallion guided his herd this way and that, closing the space between us.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

A guiding light in troubled times: When the news has you spiraling, sometimes it helps to consider how ordinary people can make a difference.

From Slate Jul. 28, 2026

Yet the principle of free navigation "did not prevent the British from guiding their colonisation in part according to the geography of straits", Domergue said.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

A guiding principle of tax treaties is avoiding double taxation.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

However, the company is guiding for a gross margin of 49% at the midpoint in networks, which is below consensus expectations of 49.7%, the bank says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

But Clare persisted, prodding her up, guiding her toward the river’s edge.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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