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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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“Nobody was brave enough to go with Uber stickers because of the backlash from tour guides,” said Migoya, who has worked as a guide for nearly a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

In order to guide the Gators back to the top of college football, he first needed to make the Gators stronger—by more than 7 tons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Instead of allowing material from the companion star to settle into a disc, the magnetic field appears to guide that matter directly onto the white dwarf.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

In Townfall I walked past film-quality models of red pillar boxes, 20 mph speed limit signs and charity collection boxes shaped like guide dogs.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

‘What guide? Why must I find the Mountain? Will I be safe there? Is that it? Safe from the bear?’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

“As far as we are concerned, that thing died the day they launched it,” said Felix Migoya, chairman of the East Africa Tour Guides and Drivers Association, which represents 1,000 Nairobi guides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

The climb's organisers said the local guides were at a staging point close to the Himlung Himal peak in Manang district when the avalanche struck.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

NAIROBI—Uber’s new Kenyan safari business is stumbling as local guides push back against the idea of the ride-hailing giant muscling into a trade they have practiced for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Uber removed its branding from the sides of its safari vehicles to protect drivers, guides and passengers from potential retaliatory danger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

After a few minutes, we get him to his feet, and Alex guides us to the lighted area.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Cracker Barrel reported a higher fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $12.2 million and guided for sales to grow in the year ahead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Dydzuhn continued that Cassius guided her to safety and spoke calmly, telling her, “There’s a man here with a weapon. I need to get you out of here.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

A very thin tube called a catheter is then guided through the femoral artery using X-ray imaging and contrast dye, which allows the doctors to see the blood vessels clearly.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

He guided both of the fighters from childhood.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

In almost all other matters of Belief, of Opinion, or of Science; the assurance, whereby men are guided, is nothing near so firm, as this.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

But this fall, “one nice thing” has become something of a guiding star.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

At its founding in 2015, OpenAI was structured to ensure that researchers, and not investors, would have the final say on how the technology was deployed, with safety for humanity the guiding philosophy.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Oram said the rule was "more of a guiding principle" and that one comment referring to a specific manager had been removed because it concerned an individual.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

He remembers a strobe light guiding the ferry into the port.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Teeth waddles in front of me, guiding me along a human path made of crushed stone stuck together with some kind of resin, like sap, only awful and stinking.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz




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