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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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Strategists stress the gauge is not designed to time markets or predict the start or end of stock-market corrections, but rather guide decisions during pullbacks and signal when investors should be more concerned.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

Using faster, more accurate satellite imagery to guide strikes is part of Ukraine’s strategy for launching more precise attacks from a distance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

In much the same way electronic chips direct electrical signals, photonic chips guide and process light.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

According to the deal, the US would help guide the creation of "pilot zones in which the Lebanese Armed Forces will take exclusive control of the territory to the exclusion of all non-state actors".

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

“It’s a building that helps guide ships away from the shore by flashing lights toward the sea.”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy




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