Guide
Guide verb - To give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed.
Manipulate is a synonym for guide in handle topic. In some cases you can use "Manipulate" instead a verb "Guide".
Manipulate
Manipulate verb - To deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently.
Usage example: a scientist effortlessly manipulating a slew of statistics while testifying before Congress
Guide is a synonym for manipulate in direct topic. Sometimes you can use "Guide" instead a verb "Manipulate", if it concerns topics such as exploit, influence.
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Posey from The Sanity Circus can guide and manipulate people and also outpredict them with reliable frequency.
- We Have Reserves: The Iron Heel's main resource is numbers: the vast population of workers kept under their thrall that they can guide and manipulate to do their bidding.
Source: Literature / The Iron Heel - The Drachenthal girl carried of by the Jinn was more impressed with Lesser Skalds, who guide and manipulate paths and are her homeland's equivalent of Songweavers, rather than Greater Skalds or Bards who forge new paths that might bring about lots of grief.
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