STEERED Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

steered

verb

past tense of steer

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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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 Trump steered the country into a war against Iran with no end in sight, disrupting the global flow of oil and spiking prices at the pump. — Jill Colvin, Fortune, 23 July 2026 For example, without a keel or rudder, the canoes are steered by just hand blades fighting all that force. — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 22 July 2026 The source also said the ESPN cuts are nowhere near the scale of the 2023 layoffs, which saw a number of recognizable on-air names depart amid a cost-savings effort steered by former Disney CEO Bob Iger. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 21 July 2026 The Path team steered me to City Saints for my final morning of coffee outings. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026 The winds unknowingly steered the Ithacans to the island of Polyphemus (Bill Irwin), the one-eyed cyclops. — Tanya Fedak, Variety, 18 July 2026 That's when the US Airways captain steered Flight 1549 to a safe water landing on the frigid Hudson River, with both engines shut down from a bird strike — shortly after takeoff from New York's LaGuardia Airport. — Scott Simon, NPR, 18 July 2026 As the nation steered into wartime and beyond, innumerable new companies would spring up and tailor their own version of the good word. — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026 On the other hand, biodiversity is far too important an issue to be steered at once by the chaotic whims of Silicon Valley, the legal battles waged by environmental nonprofits, and the old, sclerotic levers of government bureaucracy. — Taylor Dotson, Scientific American, 10 July 2026

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Altitude, not raw distance, is the biggest challenge on this trek, which is why guided itineraries build in extra nights around 11,000 and 14,000 feet.

— Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
The room suddenly went dark, and Depp — still dressed as Scrooge — emerged, guided by the light of his candle.

— Angelique Jackson, Variety, 23 July 2026

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The company already piloted similar supplier data workflows through a collaboration with Microsoft, one of its backers alongside the Ford Foundation, Hamilton Lane and S&P Global.

— Arthur Zackiewicz, Footwear News, 14 July 2026
Near the end of the demo, one of us piloted a ship while the other used a turret to shoot enemies and space debris.

— Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 7 July 2026