lodestar
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Nothing more to see, they said, than the transparent honesty of a team where input is valued and improvement is the lodestar.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
Some in the party thought they had found the lodestar in the now-disgraced Platner.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
From that moment on, the sunken warship became Mr. Dooley’s lodestar, even as he “became ever more cynical” about the Cuban revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
As we have seen in the 2000 film “Almost Famous,” Crowe’s autobiographical account of his early years, young Cameron cared little about sex or drugs, music being his only lodestar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
To the unabashedly chauvinistic Time, the youthful Professor Lawrence’s career symbolized the emergence of American science as the lodestar of international research.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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