ushered

verb

past tense of usher
as in guided
to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front ushered the job applicant into the room and then left

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Recent Examples of ushered Politicians have been ushered on the stages of megachurches to receive a pastor’s endorsement despite IRS tax laws that forbid it. — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 18 July 2026 Heartstopper’s fans have been on this journey with them for over half a decade, enough time for younger viewers to be ushered into their own adulthood. — Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2026 Crosby Stills & Nash were inducted in 1997, then ushered into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2009. — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026 Thiaw ushered his team off the pitch in that January final when Morocco were awarded a stoppage-time penalty, preceding a 17-minute delay before Brahim Diaz’s penalty was saved and Pape Gueye scored an extra-time winner. — Colin Millar, New York Times, 12 July 2026 That night, Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their five children were ushered into the cellar of the house where they were imprisoned, along with four of their loyal servants. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 July 2026 Since its inception in 2019, the Alchemist program has ushered 232 small businesses through the trainings. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2026 Massachusetts State Police ushered thousands of bewildered attendees into the tunnel. — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 4 July 2026 The sell-off ushered a dark cloud over Wall Street and sent investors searching for safe corners of the equity market. — Alex Harring, CNBC, 24 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ushered
  1. guided
  2. steered
  3. led
  4. accompanied
  5. showed
  6. conducted
  7. escorted
Verb
  • These changes were guided by a legal doctrine known as cy pres, which requires that any changes to a foundation’s mission have to adhere as closely as possible to the donor’s original intent.
    — Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 16 July 2026
  • Management also has guided for high single-digit growth in bioprocessing this year.
    — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Definition of guided
Verb
  • 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
  • Related Stories The Wonderloom launch was steered by Content Partners’ executive VP Scott Hemming and partner Alphonse Lordo.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 14 July 2026
Definition of steered
Verb
  • The last group is led by board president Heather Fargo, who served as mayor of Sacramento from 2000-2008.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026
  • This association with high status, as well as a rudimentary analysis of the size of the bones, led archaeologists to conclude that the burial belonged to a man.
    — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
Definition of led
Verb
  • Improved compliance across much of the fishing fleet has been accompanied by increasingly sophisticated attempts by a smaller group of offenders to avoid detection.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2026
  • The premiere of the ten-episode season kicks off with Hawkins, late for his tee time at a lesser golf tournament, barreling into the country-club parking lot in his tour bus, accompanied by his trusty caddie, Old Henry (Keith David).
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 16 July 2026
Definition of accompanied
Verb
  • In January, the brothers made headlines when a viral video showed the pair partying with influencers Nick Fuentes, Clavicular, Sneako, Myron Gaines and Justin Waller.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 19 July 2026
  • FlightAware showed the Gulfstream originally was scheduled to fly from New Jersey to Miami in time for the third-place match between England and France but never took off.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
Definition of showed
Verb
  • All the research Matthews' group had conducted, along with weather data from the time of the crash, was synthesized to develop a map of the most likely location and a search area of 10 square nautical miles.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
  • Oil prices are rising after the United States conducted an 11th consecutive night of strikes on Iranian military targets and Houthi rebels in Yemen threatened to disrupt a crucial escape hatch for Saudi Arabia’s oil exports.
    — Arpita Dasika, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
Definition of conducted
Verb
  • Rattin, who died last Saturday at age 89, refused to leave the field and had to be escorted off by police.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2026
  • The inmate, according to the sheriff's office, asked to use a bathroom and was escorted to one by a deputy.
    — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 13 July 2026
Definition of escorted

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