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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Instead, they generate directed fluid flows that actively push proteins toward the leading edge, where cells extend, move and repair tissue.
From Science Daily
“Unfortunately,” Taylor noted, “that really led to a lot of rattlesnake encounters of the negative kind.”
From Los Angeles Times
“The CSU has an opportunity to lead higher education by shaping how AI can be incorporated thoughtfully, equitably and responsibly,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times
But one of California’s leading political savants, Paul Mitchell, has developed a helpful online tool to suss out the possibilities.
From Los Angeles Times
Iran has effectively blocked the strait - one of the world's busiest oil shipping channels - leading to soaring wholesale oil and gas prices.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
