CONDUCTS Synonyms: 206 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of conduct

as in supervises

to look after and make decisions about the company's president continues to conduct the everyday affairs of the software firm he founded many years ago

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as in directs

to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway the gutter conducts water to the curb, thus protecting the house's basement

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as in behaves

to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way conducted themselves at the party like perfect ladies and gentlemen

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as in steers

to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front a job conducting tourists through the historical museum

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as in transmits

to cause (something) to pass from one to another a material that conducts heat quite efficiently

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conducts

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noun

plural of conduct

as in controls

the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something the President was happy to leave the conduct of foreign affairs to his secretary of state

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as in behaviors

the way or manner in which one conducts oneself a child who has often been scolded for poor conduct

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Their calculations showed that the molecule conducts electricity very differently depending on its rotational angle. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026 Andre Vasquez's office conducts a survey to decide which projects get done, like a mural outside the Budlong Woods branch of the Chicago Public Library. — Sabrina Franza, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 The base is home to the Canadian Manoeuvre Training Center, which conducts realistic battlefield exercises. — ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026 The Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation conducts specialized educational workshops centered around silent films. — Ed Meza, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026 India also conducts recruitment for public-sector jobs and admissions to public and several private colleges through competitive national exams. — Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026 Unlike most major central banks, which primarily use interest rates to manage monetary conditions, the Monetary Authority of Singapore conducts policy through the exchange rate. — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026 The organization also consults with major studios and streamers on scripts, content and promotion, conducts research, creates resources for writers’ rooms and creative executives, and awards production grants. — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026 The university conducts more than 50 interviews with 32 witnesses over several months. — Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026

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Like Abbado and Rattle, Petrenko conducts in the shadow of Karajan, who headed the orchestra from 1955-89 and left a legacy of recordings that in many cases remain regarded as top choices. — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026 The second piece is how O’Hare conducts the Commissioners Court meetings. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2026 Salty water that isn’t frozen conducts electricity much better than ice-rich frozen ground, so the differences that show up can reveal areas where the ground has thawed. — Ming Xiao, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026 Hamilton conducts guided fossil hunting tours through his company, Megalodon Adventures, and recommends fossil hunters time their visit to coincide with low tide. — Katie Riley, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2026 Alek Shrader directs; music director Joseph Marcheso conducts. — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2026 Most states have voucher laws that explicitly forbid the state from interfering in any way with how a voucher-receiving school conducts business. — Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026 The 2024 launch mirrored the testing the United States conducts for its own ballistic missile fleet, which experts viewed as an assertion of China’s growing superpower status. — Huizhong Wu, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026 Commissioner Paul Frank, who voted for the resolution, said the negotiation will be like any other the district conducts to buy or sell land. — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for conducts

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Although labs such as DeepSeek and Moonshot AI are private, the state supervises them at every stage and, increasingly, finances them.

— NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
Request the treating physician’s name and qualifications, then ask who performs each stage and how the physician supervises the team.

— Kaitlyn Gomez, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of supervises

Verb

The disease is endemic in rodents living in the Americas, Central Asia and Africa, says David Wagner, a plague expert who directs the Pathogen and Microbiome Institute at Northern Arizona University.

— Faye Flam, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026
Wizz talent Clotet directs with Celia Giraldo and Sara Fantova, and reprises her title role as Marianna, next to Marcel Borras as Samuel.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of directs

Verb

This difference influences how nuclear fuel behaves and how a reactor sustains fission.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
OpenAI found that its monitoring systems would be less likely to detect when its new Astra model behaves in undesirable ways through chain-of-thought compared to older models, according to documentation from early September.

— Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of behaves

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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

Definition of steers

Verb

The Roadster features a steer-by-wire yoke that electronically transmits steering inputs.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
The components connect to a custom wristwatch-type electronic unit that processes the signals, transmits them wirelessly to a computer and stores the measurements on a microSD card.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of transmits

Noun

For ThredUp, those overlapping behaviors present an opportunity to attract customers as households weigh competing demands on discretionary spending.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2026
Many of the strategies used in gentle parenting are very effective for helping a child manage their emotions and behaviors and build resilience and emotional intelligence.

— Alex Vance, Parents, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of behaviors

Verb

The company says its sodium-ion platform operates with passive cooling, eliminating the need for those systems.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
Technically not in Lofoten, but well worth extending your trip for, Kvitnes Gard is a historic estate in Hadsel, Vesterålen, that operates as a 15-room farm hotel.

— Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2026

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