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The ultras then set off red pyrotechnics which turned the compass needle back in the direction of the fans.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Where does one look for direction when the compass goes haywire?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

We need stories that don’t just entertain us, but also become our compass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

Frank’s watch could tell the time in ten different countries, and it had a compass, a calculator, and a tiny camera inside it.

From "The Missing Mitt (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #2)" by Franklin W. Dixon

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

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

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

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2024

In those days, proving a mathematical theorem was often as simple as drawing an elegant picture; the tools of ancient Greek mathematics weren’t pencil and paper—they were a straightedge and compasses.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

“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

She galloped it in one piece, and, thanks to her good pony, compassed the distance in rather more than two hours, having ridden close on fifty miles since dawn.

From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden

To a certain extent she succeeded, during the few minutes, the precious ten minutes, she secured practically alone with her host, in compassing her wish.

From Love and hatred by Marie Belloc Lowndes

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

From Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series by Jacob Abbott

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

James was not slow in compassing Ralegh's downfall.

From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt

Thine auguries are like my good fortune,—long in compassing.

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby