guideposts

noun

plural of guidepost
as in pointers

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guideposts
  1. pointers
  2. signals
  3. evidences
  4. features
  5. characteristics
  6. keys
  7. traits
  8. tokens
Noun
  • After making 13 of 22 3-pointers in his first four summer league games, Lendeborg was only 0 of 2 from behind the arc against the Grizzlies.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 15 July 2026
  • Aliyah Boston added 19 points and 11 rebounds for the Fever (14-9), and Sophie Cunningham scored 20 points and tied her season high with six 3-pointers.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 July 2026
Definition of pointers
Noun
  • Problems arise when people assume those same signals mean the same thing everywhere.
    — Deidre Popovich, The Conversation, 22 July 2026
  • Optasia runs roughly tens of millions of daily credit decisions through a stack of 200-plus machine-learning models that draw on thousands of alternative signals per user.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of signals
Noun
  • What Frost’s claim evidences is that perennial American anxiety about speaking a tongue whose name isn’t shared with that of our nationality.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
  • This evidences deliberate indifference to foreseeable violence.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2026
Definition of evidences
Noun
  • In other words, age limits change the economic calculus for exploitative features.
    — Ravi Iyer, Time, 18 July 2026
  • The $70-$140 range gets you larger sizes and capacities, higher wattages and extra features.
    — BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026
Definition of features
Noun
  • As far as the on-field characteristics, the Cubs see a super-athletic pitcher who, despite being only 6-foot-1, can hold his 95-mph heater into games.
    — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 17 July 2026
  • For black holes, this measure of entropy is connected to characteristics like spin and energy, which means it could be used to understand how these cosmic titans respond to different events.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 July 2026
Definition of characteristics
Noun
  • There’s also the technical and organizational overhead of maintaining and supporting old versions and their associated keys indefinitely.
    — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2026
  • Being an 80% keyboard, the MQ80 has the exact same number as tenkeyless, but IQUNIX compresses the layout, shifting the arrow keys, delete, home, end, page up and page down and others to the right.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 21 July 2026
Definition of keys
Noun
  • His ability to spin breaking balls and his arm-path traits are exciting.
    — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 17 July 2026
  • White is encouraged by the leadership traits Cain has shown this summer.
    — Hunter DeLauder, AJC.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of traits
Noun
  • Enterprises are now navigating a fast-changing mix of tokens, credits, model tiers, usage limits, overages and more inside existing software contracts.
    — Jesse Stockall, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • How swiftly and utterly a flood will erase a man’s guilt, or at least the tokens of it.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
Definition of tokens
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