compass

“That’s a huge compass for me, or a guiding measurement — being where my feet are,” said McDaniel, Yale-educated offensive coordinator of the Chargers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

"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

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

He snaps a compass off a carabiner, shows me how to use it.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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

It’s the kind of showmanship that makes moral compasses short-circuit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

He co-founded a company that began to manufacture this paint, which was used to illuminate aircraft instruments, compasses and watches.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023

“I knows him!” and, after a few convulsive efforts, the red legs took the shape of a pair of compasses, and the intelligent pupil triumphantly shouted, “It’s a We, Dranpa, it’s a We!”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

“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

And as men's political horizons expand toward the world state, each man feels a stronger need to cherish some one region small enough to be compassed by one heart and mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

But still we stick to the anatomically impossible spread-eagle stride of the turf, and feel that it conveys the idea of speed which is not compassed by the set fac-similes of photography.

From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Theodore Ayrault Dodge

They toiled upward with stubborn determination, and wasted breath in voluble commination of the length of the way, when they could have employed it more usefully in compassing it.

From White Fire by John Oxenham

The mountains where He dwelt rose close above the Island where He had tarried and suffered and overcome, compassing it about on every side.

From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

The overt act relied on to convict him of "levying war" and "compassing the death of our Lord the King," was membership of a Reform society!

From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

I was very glad; for I abjured those braided garments, compassing about my very heels with bondage, with utter satisfaction.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard

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