compass

He initially thought it was a compass jellyfish, which are native to UK waters, before realising it was too big.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

What about the faintly ludicrous figure of the foregoing 100-plus minutes was supposed to make me care about his moral compass?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 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

Booth’s diary, money, keys, compass, small knife, and tobacco would be taken to Stanton as treasure and evidence.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

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

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

Earth's dipole field, created by its liquid outer iron core, produces a magnetic field that loops from the North Pole to the South Pole and is the reason compasses point toward the poles.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024

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

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2024

It’s the kind of showmanship that makes moral compasses short-circuit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

Stars, to him, were fixed mariners, old friends, fine compasses, light pure, and druids in the silvery separateness of the night flight.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

“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

Said 80-year-old Sir J. J. Thomson, famed discoverer of the electron, who once was Rutherford's teacher: ''His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

And she had compassed more than a hundred yards when a faint sound, as of following feet, caught her ear.

From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman

"And now," said I, eyeing the pair, "what mischief have you two been compassing?"

From The O'Ruddy A Romance by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams

Perhaps no more faithful and graphic presentation of the diplomacy that is employed in compassing a second marriage can be given than is found in the proceedings of Perthes.

From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton

And the knower, as he knows, in and through his knowledge must always be compassing just that which is not impossible to him, but only unknowable—that is, impossible merely to his direct, formal knowledge.

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Alfred H. Lloyd

James was not slow in compassing Ralegh's downfall.

From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt

Often it is a twig, a flower, a glass of water, a fire-steel, or something else, in appearance of no importance, which they employ as a means of compassing their intent.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann