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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

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

“Chart your own course. Keep your compass true. The world is yours.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

Without this compass, and without Peter, I think we would never have made it.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

"Haematite is widespread. Centuries ago, it was already used for compasses in seafaring," explains Bossini.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2025

Cemeteries are invaluable compasses, a theme that binds Enriquez’s essays, and “Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave” is an immersive testament to her genius.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

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

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

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

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2024

When seventeenth-century European sailors first saw the southern skies they put objects of seventeenth- century interest in the heavens—toucans and peacocks, telescopes and microscopes, compasses and the sterns of ships.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“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

He compassed a great coup with 317 second-hand bath-tubs, became a wholesale bargain man with a Long Island City warehouse, and his slogan was known to all the city: "Fippany for Any Old Thing".

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

Bystander, while freely admitting that the Theistic theory is compassed with difficulties; and requires "re-statement," reminds us that the-"materialistic hypothesis is not free from difficulty."

From Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others by Pringle, Allen

For he would not have supposed that Miss Judy was known by any one beyond the compassing hills, so completely had her life seemed bound about by the wooded borders of the village.

From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston

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 Tawney, R. H.

She was afterwards, however, accused of consulting witches concerning the mode of compassing the death of her husband’s nephew, Henry VI.

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

But there seemed to be no means of compassing this end, try as he would to think of some way.

From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by Goldfrap, John Henry

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 Stanton, Henry B.