compass

“The Wrong Girls” comes to have its own wayward sense of internal logic, navigating off a slightly woozy compass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The more Mary affords grace to others, the more she gains confidence in who she is, as a person with a strong moral compass forged away from her mother’s ambitions.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

Walking in these diagonal directions, as well as 5 feet in the straight compass directions, shows that many pairs of dots on this giant chessboard are exactly 5 feet apart.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

"By attempting to be all things to all voters," he wrote, "it seems to have lost both its moral compass and its nerve."

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

Worsley had only one compass left, and he lighted a match to check that they were still headed in the right direction: the island itself was lost in the darkness.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Researchers have proposed quantum compasses as highly accurate, "unjammable" alternatives to GPS that do not rely on satellites, and phonon lasers could help bring such concepts closer to reality.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 31, 2026

Guided by phosphorescent compasses strapped to their wrists, the divers reached the ship in just a few minutes.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

Dr. Sharvit speculated that, lacking compasses, astrolabes or sextants, seafarers in the 14th century B.C. probably relied on celestial navigation, taking sightings and angles of the sun and star positions.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

That will mean switching to compasses and calling in artillery using a map — and doing it all seamlessly.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2024

By using the compasses set with this separation to step off distances marked on paper, he could estimate the angular separation of the two objects on the sky at that time.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

“Wild Swans” would seem to have laid bare every cruel irony of the volatile times it compassed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

The "great tracts of land" he imagines "compassed about with heavens fair" are not necessarily those of Eden.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2010

She compassed a weighty historical tome in 1922, after which fiction-writing seemed like child's play.

From Time Magazine Archive

Manchu China en compassed all of Mongolia, Korea and Taiwan.

From Time Magazine Archive

"However," it is said, "where all cannot be compassed, much may be accomplished; but I must not, in fairness, conceal from you that you have much to do."

From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers

Among other things, treason was defined to be waging war against the King, or compassing and imagining his death, or the overthrow of his Government.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton

The mountains where He dwelt rose close above the Island where He had tarried and suffered and overcome, compassing it about on every side.

From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

She remembers him chiefly as absorbed in the business and interest of his profession, intent upon compassing the support of his family, and achieving such distinction as might prove compatible with that object.

From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Julia Ward Howe

Never be guilty of leaving the spoon in the cup and compassing it with one or more fingers in carrying it to the lips.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke

For that which is visible and tangible one may hope to cope with and subdue, but the invisible and intangible contain possibilities beyond the compassing, and the elements of unreasoning fear.

From White Fire by John Oxenham