polestar

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Intent has been the polestar for the evolution of secondary liability—and especially the contributory liability theory—in copyright law.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2025

They’re a polestar, to some degree, for bands like ours.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2021

“If we can’t have a conversation with the past, what will be our future?” asks the play’s polestar, one pure-hearted Eric Glass, portrayed by moony-eyed Kyle Soller as sincerity incarnate.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2019

For in Martin’s vast creation, sprawling in both space and time, there is an ever-present drive, an orienting polestar: Who will emerge victorious and sit on the namesake Iron Throne?

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2018

Guiot relates how mariners have an "art which cannot deceive" of finding the position of the polestar, that does not move.

From The Story of Electricity by Munro, John