North Star
Example Sentences
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White’s vision intended for his music to reach a universal audience, evolve consciousness and change the world, using positivity as his North Star.
From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026
Personhood has become the movement’s new North Star.
From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026
The principle that chips roughly double in power every two years has been the industry’s North Star since the 1960s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
After all, this is a company that holds itself out as the North Star of our incipient “space-faring civilization,” as Elon Musk puts it in SpaceX’s prospectus.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
I remember how I looked out of the frosted pane and saw the looming great North Star and lost it, as though the sky had shut its eye.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
