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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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“If history is a guide, this is precisely the time you want to be selling memory-exposed names,” Krinsky said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

If these environments on Earth were capable of supporting the chemistry needed for life, they could guide scientists toward promising places to look beyond our planet.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 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

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

Is the goal of the map to find a guide, like Kumu Maka did?

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila