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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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He has a low-key comic energy and helps guide the story through a few of its trickier emotional turns.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

Local community members like Pan Sok, a member of the Chong Indigenous minority, guide CI on where to place devices.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

The biggest challenge when she got started using Claude for multistep tasks was knowing the right questions to ask and how to best guide it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026

The interactive tool below will guide you through the events and the words of the police officers on the scene.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026

I was tired of knitting with only the light from the hearth to guide my stitches.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff




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