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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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Ahead of Baby Loss Awareness Week she has written and published a compassionate guide to help others, called The Silence Of TFMR.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Its exhibits "moved to storage," according to a guide at the new museum.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 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

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

The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, which guides federal judges in weighing expert testimony, was recently revised by the Federal Judicial Center and the National Academies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

I watch as Ms. Albright guides Taylor to the front row, lets her sit next to Cal, and then kneels down in front of them for a minute to talk to them.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

Management guided higher average selling prices trend for October and November as Chinese glove makers show greater discipline and demand and supply become more balanced, she notes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Gavril and Sender handled the ropes while Lev and I guided the board to the shallow bath at the other end of the room.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

But a guiding factor for courts in determining which standard applies is how useful the industry is to society.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The boy helped him drag it along the floor, guiding it until it sat directly under the table.

From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi




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