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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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The Office of Violence Prevention would be required to develop a plan for a “peer navigator model” to guide survivors through the restraining order system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Still more, unlike with the former, there is precedent to guide the court: Justice Bushrod Washington’s ample explication of Article IV’s Privileges and Immunity Clause in 1823 in Corfield v.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

If history is any guide, most of them are likely to lose.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

"All wars end in peace, and all crimes are judged by a court," the guide said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

“I think maybe you should sit for a minute,” I hear her say, feel her guide me by my elbow.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Slate’s three decades have seen countless beginner’s guides, staff recommendations, tabulations of game-night commercials, and “Completist” roundups of everything from Pepperidge Farm cookies to Super Bowls.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026

These trained guides work with patients and healthcare teams to connect people with medical care, services, and other resources.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

"In psychiatry it's been a problem, and optogenetics has started to address that because we can say, 'these cells are too active' or 'not active enough,' and that guides us in a very powerful way."

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Abbot guides blue shark snorkelling trips off of Pembrokeshire and was on a scheduled snorkelling trip in the Celtic Sea on 25 September when he discovered the rare find.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Officer Moore guides his wife, hand on her back.

From "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

It offers only guided tours to small groups by prior arrangement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

“Any decisions we make will be guided by what is in the best interests of both current and future students.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

They begin with behavior, guided by the core principle that similar behaviors can arise from very different minds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

It also means erasing the construct of Hal’s consciousness that has guided John since his mentor died.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Day and night, it guided a long, narrow piece of paper moving faithfully underneath a quivering black pen.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

They position telescopes for the night's planets and constellations before guiding visitors from local homestays.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

“Current law says that the guiding principle for the management of the forests is maximum sustained production of high-quality wood products,” he told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

But this fall, “one nice thing” has become something of a guiding star.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

For 2026, the company is guiding for EPS growth at the top end of its 6%-8% outlook, and return on equity at the upper end of its 14%-16% guidance range.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The guy is guiding Mr. Ram through the motions again, their hands vastly different in size, but close in color.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali




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