STEERS Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

steers

verb

present tense third-person singular of steer

as in guides

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 pilots

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 steers Yesica Fabiana Leviñanco steers her small wooden boat while her partner, Paulo Vera Perez, dives into the cold ocean waters off the coast of southern Chile. — ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026 The band frequently steers the poppy songwriting offroad by leaning into distortion and ambience, creating moments of both near-mania and hazy unease. — Sue Park, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026 Allen, who serves as founder, chairman and CEO of Allen Media Group, steers a portfolio that covers TV, film, streaming and broadcast with The Weather Channel, HBCUGO, TheGrio Television Network, BuzzFeed and HuffPost. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026 That’s because El Niño typically pointsthe jet stream — the west-to-east flowing, cross-country river of air that steers storms — at the southern tier of the US. — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026 Camden generally steers private clients away from designing for stays longer than 30 days, though some have asked his firm to plan for a year or more. — Megan Buerger, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026 But since these girls don’t have anything that looks like conventional adulthood waiting for them, the film wisely steers them away from maturity and toward a kind of spiritual liberation. — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026 Throughout the tour, Candamil draws on his memories growing up in the market, first watching his father and then working there in his youth as a carretillero, a cargo porter who steers upright wooden carts with produce through its narrow aisles. — Nikkita Nair, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026 Web protection steers any application away from dangerous URLs, which is a plus. — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026

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Verb

During the live, two-hour session, an art teacher guides her through painting her pet’s portrait, creating a one-of-a-kind keepsake.

— Jeaneen Russell, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2026
That’s largely due to Apple’s ultra-wideband chip, which enables Precision Finding and guides you to an object’s exact location with on-screen arrows, vibrations, and sounds.

— Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of guides

Verb

The software that pilots the drones, for example, can plug into things like Boston Dynamics’ robo-dog, Spot, or into other companies’ drones.

— Margaux MacColl, Vanity Fair, 21 Oct. 2026
Heath pilots a fighter jet, deploys bombs in foreign countries, and thwarts cyberattacks, all after remarkably cursory and casual conversations with a government official.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of pilots

Verb

Nick Brown, Washington’s attorney general, leads a group of Democratic state officials and voting rights advocates who have been planning how to respond if, indeed, there is real federal interference.

— Jen Fifield, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2026
McDavid is the fastest player in league history to 30 assists, leads all scorers with 39 points and is on pace to join Wayne Gretzky as the only players to reach 200 in a season.

— CBS New York Team, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of leads

Verb

Fanatics navigates everything from NFL product with multimillion-dollar volume to a small school where the overall sales are just $6,000.

— Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026
In this role, Arnold will shepherd how IATSE navigates new technologies and their impact on the organization’s entertainment workers and their crafts.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of navigates

Verb

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
Impact on jobs Along with the financial toll that often accompanies looking after a loved one, caregivers may also experience an impact on their jobs or income.

— Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of accompanies

Verb

Their predicament hijacks Irwin’s suburban family life, just as his wife Hester (Scarlett Johansson, not Hathaway) is diagnosed with a sudden illness.

— Antonio Ferme, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
As money hijacks morality and democracy begins to look like a hoax, Tresnjak’s Broadway-caliber staging contrasts garish spectacle with piercingly intimate scenes between Claire and Anton.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of hijacks

Verb

The artist’s best work, in a new retrospective at the Whitney Museum, directs his campy humor at gender stereotypes.

— Hilton Als, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
But DeFlock, a crowdsourcing website that directs people to plot the cameras on a map after finding them, estimates the number in a 29-county area around Atlanta is more than 6,000 – both Flock and non-Flock ALPRs.

— Graham Hurley, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of directs

Verb

Savannah River National Laboratory conducts research involving nuclear materials, environmental management, energy technologies, and national security.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
In 2025, 40 hours of in-home caregiving help a week ran about $72,792 a year, according to the insurance company Genworth, which conducts annual surveys of the cost of care.

— Kat McGowan, NPR, 28 Oct. 2026