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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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Struggling to get the logline right, he wondered what would happen if he uploaded some of his screenwriting lectures to guide the AI to help him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

He said the five-year plan would guide the policy of the local authorities but would not be compulsory.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

They usually see the film just once to write the guide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

All participants received guidance based on Canada's food guide, and the researchers supplied full-fat dairy products during the study.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

She then proceeded to guide Duane in the making of a new ice treat.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

These findings challenge the sharp distinction between "forest" and "open habitats" that often guides conservation planning today.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

Sucdi Abdul Fattah Abdul Khader is among a growing number of local guides taking visitors beyond the headlines to explore Mogadishu's beauty spots, historic sites and culture.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

"A practical framework that guides our cooperation over the next several years. I will note a critically important next several years."

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Analysts who track companies’ earnings beats and misses routinely strip out recurring costs like stock-based pay, if management guides them to do so.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Drew spoke Arabic, and when the news broke he spent hours in conversation with our guides.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

“I changed the name to ‘Survival of Serena,’ because survival is what these brave people did when they came on floats, what the immigrants did,” Feuerman said on a guided walking tour after the unveiling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

For the current third quarter, the company guided for earnings of between $1.30 and $1.44 a share on revenue between $3.27 billion and $3.42 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

It had previously guided for 10% in revenue growth.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

Participants evaluated using traditional risk scores received recommendations to start statin therapy more than three times as often as those whose decisions were guided by coronary calcium measurements.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

He would have uttered a prayer and guided us forward.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

But Feldman was never interested in chance as a guiding philosophy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

Another option would focus on safely retiring Hubble when its scientific work is complete, either by guiding it through a controlled descent into Earth's atmosphere or arranging for its disposal in orbit.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

This guiding principle traveled through “The Next Generation” and subsequent movies, along with the recent Paramount+ “Star Trek” spinoff, “Star Trek: Picard.”

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Dolores thrived on a middle-class upbringing of Girl Scouts, violin lessons and tap dancing, describing her mother’s generosity as a guiding force.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

At the top of the stairs they reach a black platform, where everything is endlessly dark save for a circus worker in a white suit who is guiding patrons inside.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern


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