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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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Algorithms that guide food distribution must be transparent enough to be audited.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

She dedicated a guide that she co-wrote to “my daughters Yael and Michelle, who have always been supportive of my work even when it took me away from them.…”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

If there is a big employment increase, then the three-month average of job creation is a better guide for assessing the strength of the labor market.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026

Wells Fargo also expects the company to guide for second-quarter revenue in the range of $58 billion to $61 billion, marking slightly more muted growth year-over-year.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

Mike Burry was odd in his desire to remain insulated from public opinion, and even direct human contact, and to focus instead on hard data and the incentives that guide future human financial behavior.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis