steered

past tense of steer
1
as in guided
to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front the man in the train station was able to steer us in the right direction

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2
as in piloted
to operate or control the course of first needed to learn how to steer her personal watercraft before going out on the crowded lake

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Recent Examples of steered Related Stories The gathering is being steered by two longtime members of the team that helped shape Seminci’s recent artistic identity. — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026 The view from the CFO’s office The finance chief, Paul Jacobson, has steered the company into a position where Kelty has room to dig deep and experiment. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026 On April 8, 2025, the Herald/Times Tallahassee bureau broke the story, reporting that the DeSantis administration had steered Medicaid settlement money toward the Hope Florida Foundation. — Christopher Spata, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026 The plane’s first officer, an Omani man named Hamam al-Hammami, had assaulted the plane’s Indian captain with an emergency axe and steered the aircraft into a nosedive. — Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Backup Ty Dieffenbach steered UCLA to a win, but the Bruins need better quarterback depth. — Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026 The prologue starts in 1986 in Newfoundland with a family relocating, uprooting their lives in the most all-encompassing of ways, taking their entire home — propped up on a barge and steered by a lone motorboat — across a bay. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026 The world, in other words, is currently being steered by people who don’t like it very much, and Artificial makes the case that this should be very alarming, albeit in a way that’s frustratingly aloof. — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026 The complaint also says that Merrill advisors inappropriately steered clients toward low-interest Bank of America accounts, resulting in substantial financial losses. — Chase Jordan october 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2026
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  • The Office of the Attorney General remains committed to conducting an investigation guided only by the facts, the evidence, and the law.
    — Kelsie Cairns , Maria Paronich, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Seiple played for Smith, who guided the Redhawks to the 1969 quarterfinals.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026
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  • Robb Report piloted it around Belgium, and the famed TV show Top Gear reviewed it in what would be its final episode.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Alongside its longstanding classroom-in-residence program, in which fourth- through sixth-grade classes spend a week at the museum, the Hammer piloted its classroom partnership program under Ryan.
    — Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
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  • The students led those protests before challenging and defeating Vucic at the early ballot on Sunday.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Kenya revealed details last month of a partnership with pan-African sports investment outfit Zaria Group — led by Dallas Mavericks President Masai Ujiri — to build a 10,000-seater indoor arena in Nairobi.
    — Martin K.N Siele, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2026
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  • This exhibition includes multiple cohorts of practitioners who have navigated a field that remains marginalized by the mainstream art world.
    — Shauna Lyon, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2026
  • He’s been impressed with how his lifelong friend has navigated everything swirling around him.
    — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

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“Steered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steered. Accessed 3 Nov. 2026.

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