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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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Co-chief executives Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters praised his leadership style and said his influence would continue to guide the platform.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

There’s a tour and there’s a guide, and the guide starts to tell you what you should think.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Investment-banking fees jumped 48% from a year earlier to $2.84 billion, thanks to meaningfully higher revenue from both advisory work—where bankers guide clients on big-ticket deals such as mergers and acquisitions—and equity underwriting.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

This knowledge may eventually help guide new approaches to treating conditions associated with mitochondrial dysfunction.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

Despite the storm and the treacherous waters, Kontos, a skilled mariner, managed to guide his two boats to shelter in Antikythera’s only harbor, a small cove on its northern coast called Potamos.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler




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