compass
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“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
Skye MRT said walkers should be wary of technology failing and be able to use a map and compass.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Despite her national profile, there remains a nagging suspicion that she lacks an internal compass and the courage of her convictions.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Thanks to their late father’s surveying compass, however, George gains an important skill in charting the land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
“My internal compass will keep me headed in the right direction,” said Roz.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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
But at least they’ve got these compasses, bought from the same good sister who sells the clothes.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
“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
Her graciousness, her elegance, her worldliness, are not to be compassed by a sentence.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
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
This manifestation, sixteen years after the mutiny at Cavite, seems to have had some relation to that event, for the petition accused the friars of compassing the death of Father Burgos, by subornation of justice.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
And they saw the camp of the Gentiles strong and fortified, and horsemen compassing it round about; and these were expert in war.
From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall
Just now life meant quiet, earnest compassing of the three things.
From The Westerners by Stewart Edward White
But Mr. Scrope has his refinements, and, besides that he spares himself, would take a particular pleasure in compassing my ruin at the same time that he outwitted you.'
From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang
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