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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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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

"It's a composite image. Each member of this family has several prototypes," the guide explained.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

He'd initially recorded the lyrics as a guide for Gwangwa - but the musician decided to keep some of them intact "as a gesture of brotherhood".

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

And this branch, this wood, became their guide.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

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

"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

Mr. Bond guides readers through ancient depictions of animals, including the gorgeous array of prehistoric cave paintings, with their mixture of dangerous predators and powerful herbivores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The researchers are also working to identify the specific signal that guides T cells toward the brain.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Locke guides me away, stopping to grab up someone’s blanket, which he wraps around my shoulders.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Most of the anxiety-slash-blame was dumped upon Maye, the third-year quarterback and reigning MVP runner-up who’d guided New England to a 14-3 regular season and a run to the Super Bowl.

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

TimeStar plucked the Turing letter from his hand, passed it to Old Petey, then guided Donny away.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

The U.S. has also shifted its positioning from constraint of yen weakness to guiding the yen stronger, Citi says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

"It's been a guiding light, in some ways, the limitations of the band," he explains.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 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

And one daughter keeps her hand on the mother’s arm, guiding her away from dusty craters in the pavement.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver




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