lead
Usage
What are other ways to say lead?
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. Guide implies continuous presence or agency in showing or indicating a course: to guide a traveler. To conduct is to precede or escort them 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.
Example Sentences
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San Diego, led the effort to design the molecular device behind CaBLAM.
From Science Daily
"For the first time, we've put years on when every single glacier on Earth will disappear," says Lander Van Tricht, lead author of the study published on December 15, 2025, in Nature Climate Change.
From Science Daily
Damage to this system can disrupt communication between the eye and the brain, leading to vision problems.
From Science Daily
After four months of searching, LMU graduate Akgul finally landed a technical lead job at a software consultancy in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times
Rebels fans want nothing to do with Kiffin, the sixth-year Rebels coach who was in the midst of leading the team to its best ever regular season record.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
