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"Navi Pillay's commitment to universal legal principles and her firm moral compass are constants in a long career," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Picture what you want your life to look like in a year and use that image as your compass.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

These particles could align with Earth's magnetic field and behave like microscopic compass needles.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Where does one look for direction when the compass goes haywire?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The compass has me climbing up a ledge.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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

When Luna was little, her grandmother taught her about magnets and compasses.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

“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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

These aims, it was judged, could be compassed in two years and the New York Board of Regents had been persuaded to issue an irregular* charter, for the first "junior college" in the state.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first of these, Pison, compassed the whole land of Havilah, the second, Gihon, that compassed the whole land of Ethiopia.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll

Lean Jim Turley—forgetful of his interests in a fairly divine satisfaction with compassing the joy and welfare of his fellows!

From Every Man for Himself by Norman Duncan

It is compassing sea and land in its efforts to overcome, by ingenious financial and technical expedients, obstacles which should never have existed.

From The Acquisitive Society by R. H. Tawney

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

Thus a formidable conspiracy was formed for the purpose of compassing Temujin's ruin.

From Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series by Jacob Abbott

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