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 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 Matsuoka has steered Toho’s expansion overseas, including its acquisitions of Gkids and Anime Limited. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 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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Verb

God has put people in your way who have guided you and assisted you.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026
Spotify had guided to slower MAU growth in the third quarter, pointing to changes to products in emerging countries to help the company better monetize its user bases.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of guided

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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

Definition of piloted

Verb

In April this year, a European consortium led by Belgian telecommunications company Proximus won one of four contracts together worth up to €180 million under the Commission’s sovereign cloud procurement programme.

— Margot Edelman, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
As Comcast, led by Brian Roberts and Michael Cavanagh, reported its third-quarter financials, Peacock posted a pre-tax profit of $261 million, which followed a $189 million profit in the most recent second quarter and a $217 million year-ago loss.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of led

Verb

The two dated through their senior year, then navigated long distance through college and starting jobs in different cities.

— Shelby Wax, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
Like anyone who has navigated the music industry for more than two decades, Larsson has felt the ebbs and flows of success.

— Remy Rippon, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2026