compass

"He wanted a straight line to be drawn on a map to look like a straight line in reality if you followed a compass bearing," he told the BBC.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

“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

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

“My internal compass will keep me headed in the right direction,” said Roz.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

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

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

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

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2024

Malcolm turned to his homework, constructing figures with his ruler and compasses, a task he normally enjoyed, but he couldn’t focus on it at all.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

“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

She compassed a weighty historical tome in 1922, after which fiction-writing seemed like child's play.

From Time Magazine Archive

He kept it up until he knew he must have compassed more than half the distance—all that was required—between two poles, but he could not find one.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo

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

For that which is visible and tangible one may hope to cope with and subdue, but the invisible and intangible contain possibilities beyond the compassing, and the elements of unreasoning fear.

From White Fire by John Oxenham

Whence this mystery, and disguise, and circuitous compassing of his end?

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods

Previous to the Hicks Expedition Abu Anga had already secured a number of them, and they were largely instrumental in compassing the complete downfall of that ill-fated army.

From Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 by F. R. Wingate

The reeling of millenniums set Smith's mind awhirl with the effort at compassing their span.

From The Tree of Life by C. L. (Catherine Lucile) Moore