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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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I thought I knew how to guide children through fear.

From Los Angeles Times

Taylor lost his job at Taft in 2023 after guiding the Toreadors to an Open Division title.

From Los Angeles Times

Still, successfully guiding dream content marks an important advance in understanding how sleep may support creative thinking.

From Science Daily

Jerome Powell, whose term as Fed chair ends in May, has guided the economy through the worst inflation in four decades and relentless political pressure to change course.

From The Wall Street Journal

England captain Harry Brook paid tribute to Tom Banton, who starred with the bat to guide England to a five-wicket win over Scotland on Saturday that got their T20 World Cup campaign back on track.

From Barron's