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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.

Example Sentences

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These findings may guide future therapies designed to boost muscle regeneration in older adults.

From Science Daily

Decisions are guided by clinical judgement and what is safest and most appropriate for individual patients.

From BBC

During their search, the team encountered a Tuareg man who offered to guide them on his motorbike deep into the Sahara, where he had seen enormous fossil bones.

From Science Daily

The other three victims were hired guides who led the expedition.

From Los Angeles Times

Brown recalled a 2016 expedition to Antarctica when his guide explained there was more than one South Pole.

From The Wall Street Journal