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

When he turns, we turn, and the anguish that Garfield wordlessly conveys is our compass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

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

In surveying, you started from a known point and ran your lines by compass.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2025

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

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

But something more nuanced emerges regarding our internal compasses in filmmaker Levan Akin’s “Crossing,” about a retired Georgian schoolteacher trying to track down her transgender niece in Istanbul.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024

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

In the morning the men took out their maps and compasses, checked nearby landmarks . . . and realized the British plane had badly missed the intended drop target.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

“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

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

As life is compassed in instants to the drowning, so in these seconds through his mental vision swept the past.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Cyrus Townsend Brady

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

From Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series by Jacob Abbott

A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

"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

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

Her soul was now addressed to the achievement of some plan of co-operation with the republican chief, and she succeeded where wiser persons must have failed in compassing the desirable facilities.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various