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  • verb Present participle of guide.
  • noun Girl Guiding

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  • adjective showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on
  • adjective exerting control or influence

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Examples

  • Drunk with white supremacy, intoxicated by what they called the guiding light of civilisation, Afrikaner Nationalism inflicted the flailing blows of apartheid upon us, bringing domestic violence into what ought to have been a happy national family home, and in the process spiritually maiming themselves.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • She had always been what he called his guiding star.

    Country Neighbors Alice Brown 1902

  • For the past two months we have spent considerable time and energy working on what I call the guiding principles that direct-to-consumer marketing.

    unknown title 2011

  • I don't think he cares about sales either, but I think he would benefit from a label guiding the tangentials like artwork, videos and press.

    unknown title 2009

  • At CMS, Mr. Berger devised a program that was loose and informal; teachers were called "guiding artists," students were "participants."

    Preserving an Upstate Jazz Incubator Larry Blumenfeld 2011

  • Thanks, Richard, for publishing these statistics but they have no value whatsoever in guiding the stranger in deciding where to settle.

    Latest survey shows safest states in Mexico 2009

  • Especially the joy in guiding their first book toward publication, finally seeing it in print.

    michael koehler | tangletown & beyond « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • William Pearson may have played a small part in guiding that legislation through the upper house, where he represented the province of Gippsland for twenty years from 1896 to 1916.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Especially the joy in guiding their first book toward publication, finally seeing it in print.

    October « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Sanford should use his common sense and conscience in guiding him towards a decision that would be in the best interest of the people he purports to serve.

    Steele on Sanford: 'Here we go again' 2009

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