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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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Here is a guide to the 2026 June election in California.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

“It was one of those places where something is always going wrong,” said Haley Berger, a former tour guide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

"As a young girl, I really had to rely on coaches and PE teachers to guide me on my journey of wanting to be a footballer," she said.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Those experiments showed that MoOCl2 could guide light in highly directional and unexpected ways.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

Though he grew old, his memories remained sharp, and Alfred became the unofficial and much-sought-after tour guide.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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